Overview
- Description
- Two photographs: depicting Jakob Widawski (donor’s father) born on May 21, 1921 in Wieruszow, 55 miles WNW from Czestochowa, together with seven other survivors of the town in which 2,400 Jews lived before the war. Jakob Widawski survived the forced labor camp near Poznan, the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his prisoner number was 141687, and a death march to Gleiwitz, Langebilau camps from which he managed to escape.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Freda Widawski
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
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- Conditions on Access
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Keywords & Subjects
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Freda Widawski.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-07-11 07:33:48
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn46866
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