Overview
- Description
- Relates to Dana Alvi's experiences as a child in Warsaw, Poland during World War II; her family's involvement in protecting and hiding Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto; the activities of her uncle, Wladyslaw Wisniewski, in helping Warsaw's Jewish population; the events of the Warsaw Uprising; the Soviet occupation of Warsaw; postwar internment in a displaced persons camp in Eschwege, Germany.
- Date
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1990
- Collection Creator
- Dana I. Alvi
- Biography
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Dana I. Alvi (nee Danuta Iza Bronska) was born on 22 Nov 1932, in Warsaw, Poland
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narratives.
- Extent
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1 folder
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Antisemitism. Autobiography. Children. Hiding places. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jews--Poland. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Refugees.
- Geographic Name
- Eschwege (Germany) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Personal Name
- Alvi, Dana I. Wisniewski, Wladyslaw.
- Corporate Name
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, California
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The untitled memoir was written by Dana I. Alvi on 26 Jan. 1990 for the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, California. Photocopy provided by the author to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-23 13:46:47
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