Charlotte Szwajcer papers

Document | Accession Number: 2002.254.1

Consists of a certificate of incarceration, issued to Szajndla Harsrawa nee Szmulewicz (Charlotte Szwajcer's maternal grandmother) on 24 March 1960, in Antwerp, Belgium, by the International Committee of the Red Cross as well as an identity card issued in Brussels, Belgium, on 13 December 1943, to Szajndla Harsrawa, nee Szmulewicz, stating that her nationality was Polish.

Date: issue: 1943 December 13-1960 March 24
Language: French
Genre/Form: Identification card.
Extent: 1 folder

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Document Creator: Charlotte Szwajcer
Biography: Jakub Szwajcer was born on June 14, 1903 in Bedzin, Poland. In 1919, he immigrated to Palestine. After seven years, he and his future wife, Bajla Ferens, immigrated to Rotterdam, Netherlands, where Jakub found work as a merchant. After the German invasion of the Netherlands, they moved to Gouda, Netherlands and in October 1942 found a hiding place there. Bajla found life in hiding to be very difficult and left. She was captured and deported to Auschwitz concentration camp on November 13, 1942. Jakub Szwajcer survived the Holocaust and remarried a survivor from Belgium.
Personal Name: Harsrawa, Szajndla.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Charlotte Szwajcer in 2002.
Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
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Contains materials documenting the experiences of Charlotte Szwajcer's family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.