Overview
- Description
- Contains information about persecution of Ida Shkolnik in a ghetto in occupied Poland; her escape to a forest; her marriage to Morris Shkolnik; their life together as refugees; their immigration to the United States; and their new life in America.
- Date
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1988
- Collection Creator
- Ida Shkolnik
- Biography
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Ida Shkolnik (originally Chaja Pintow) survived the Holocaust in a ghetto and later in hiding. She was married to Morris Shkolnik and they immigrated to the United States after the war.
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Antisemitism. Autobiography. Emigration and immigration. Escapes. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors. Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Glebokie. Refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Geographic Name
- Soviet Union. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Glebokie (Belarus) United States.
- Personal Name
- Pintow, Chaja. Shkolnik, Ida (Pintow, Chaja) Shkolnik, Morris.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Mrs. Shkolnik wrote the memoir in 1988 and gave the original handwritten text to the donor. Ms. Gottlieb sent it to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department in Sept. 1992, and that department forwarded the document on to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum during the same month.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:00:19
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Also in Shkolnik family collection
Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of the Shkolnik family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Peretz Shkolnik letter
Document
Photocopy and translation of a letter written by Peretz Shkolnik in a displaced persons camp in Cremona, Italy, describing his family's persecutions and his wife's and son's murder during the Holocaust in Jody, Belarus, and other ghettos. Shkolnik survived the Holocaust in hiding near Jody.
