Overview
- Description
- Collection consists of 21 postcards and eight letters written by different members of the Sylman family in Chmielnik to Icek, Tema and Haneczka Frydman in Siberia; dates August 1940-May 1941; location Chmielnik ghetto in Poland, in Polish.
- Date
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inclusive:
1940 August-1941 May
- Collection Creator
- Anna F. Prager
- Biography
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Anna Friedman Prager was born as Chana Sima Frydman on January 6, 1936, in Chmielnik, Poland, to Icek and Tema Frydman. In June 1940 the Soviets expelled Tema, Icek, and Anna Frydman to Bodaybo (Bodaibo), a forced labor camp in Siberia. They were released in 1943 and migrated to Samarkand (Samarqand) in Uzbekistan. In 1945 the Frydmans immigrated illegally to Sweden and settled in Landskrona where they remained until 1949.
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Genre/Form
- Letters. Postcards.
- Extent
-
1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- 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.
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Chmielnik (Poland)
- Personal Name
- Prager, Anna.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Anna Friedman Prager in 2002.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:04:01
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Also in Anna Friedman Prager collection
Contains materials documenting the experiences of Anna Friedman Prager and her family during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Frydman family photographs
Document
The collection consists of photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Anna Prager (born Chana Frydman) and her family, originally of Chmielnik, Poland. Contains photographs and color slides depicting Anna's family before World War II in Poland and after World War II in Sweden, Germany, and the United States.
Anna Prager photographs
Document
The collection consists of photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Anna Prager (born Chana Frydman) and her family, originally of Chmielnik, Poland. Included are depictions of Anna as a child in Chmielnik, her maternal aunts and uncles, her father Ick Frydman in the Polish Army in August 1939, her family's escape to Siberia and later Uzbekistan, the Frydman and Sylman families in Kielce, Poland, on February 20, 1946, Anna and her family in in Sweden from 1946 to 1949, and Anna’s maternal grandmother and Aunt Chava.
