Overview
- Description
- Contains 24 photographs, dated circa 1914-1949, and documents relating to the Szymon Burg family of Boryslaw (Galicia), Poland. Documents include typed post-war testimonies, registration documents for Central Committee of Polish Jews, and paperwork prepared for restitution purposes, including affidavits from friends of Szymon and Eugene Burg living in Israel, who confirmed the veracity of their stories.
- Date
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inclusive:
1914-1981
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Stefan Burg
- Collection Creator
- Szymon Burg
- Biography
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Szymon Burg was born in Borislau, Austro-Hungarian Empire (later Borysław, Poland and Boryslav, Ukraine) in 1907, to Osias Burg (1860-1912) and Mina Burg, nee Rosenzweig (b. 1865), who were originally from Stanislau (later Stanislawow, Poland, and now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). Burg's parents moved to Vienna for education and professional training, but returned to Galicia, settling in Borysław, where Szymon and his siblings were raised. After his schooling, Szymon worked in the oil industry in companies based in and around Borysław, from 1920 to 1941. With the German invasion of this region in 1941, Burg and his family were forcibly resettled into a ghetto in Borysław, and then as forced laborers, working for a company called Karpathen Öl, until 1944. During this time Burg lost five of his siblings, who were murdered by the German forces. After liberation, Burg initially remained in Borysław, but later resettled in the Silesian city of Gliwice (Gleiwitz) after this region had been ceded by Germany to Poland, and Burg's native Galicia had been ceded to the Soviet Union. Burg married Eugenie Josefsberg (b. 1914), and they had a son, Stefan (b. 1946). Szymon worked in a construction firm in Gliwice until 1968, and he immigrated to Sweden the following year, settling in Malmö.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Boryslav--Personal narratives. Jews--Ukraine--Boryslav. Jewish refugees--Poland.
- Geographic Name
- Boryslav (Ukraine)
- Personal Name
- Burg, Eugenie. Burg, Stefan.
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 Stefan Burg.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-07-11 07:39:33
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Also in Eugenia Josefsberg Burg collection
The collection consists of a Star of David armband and a document related to the experience of Eugenia Josefsberg Burg in the Boryslaw ghetto/labor camp in Poland during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Date: 1942-1944
![Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband with a Star of David worn in the Boryslaw labor camp](https://www.ushmm.org/media/emu/get?irn=519079&mm_irn=15252&file=secondary "Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband with a Star of David worn in the Boryslaw labor camp")
Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband with a Star of David worn in the Boryslaw labor camp
Object
Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband issued to 28 year old Eugenia Josefsberg Burg to identify her as Jewish forced laborer during her imprisonment in the ghetto in Boryslaw, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine), established by the Germans in August 1942. Boryslaw had an important oil refinery and, for a while, the workers were not subject to the mass deportations to death camps which emptied Boryslaw of all Jews by 1944. Eugenia and her husband, Szymon, escaped from the ghetto around April 1943. With a small group, they hid in a dugout in the forest until the area was liberated by the Soviet Army on August 7, 1944.
Eugenia Burg identification card
Document
The identification card ("Ausweis") was issued to Eugenia Burg (donor's mother) in the ghetto in Boryslav, Ukraine, and lists places of work, dates, and locations.
Stefan Burg document
Document
Document: receipt issued to Simon Wagner, Eugenia Burg's brother-in-law, by the German authorities in Boryslaw for the confiscated radio, dated July 11, 1941; in German.
