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Henia Lewin photographs

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    Overview

    Description
    Contains eight pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs depicting Henia Wisgardisky and her family of Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania.
    Date
    inclusive:  1936-1946
    Collection Creator
    Henia Lewin
    Biography
    Henia Wisgardisky (now Henia Lewin) is the daughter of Jona and Gita (Salat) Wisgardisky from Kovno, Lithuania. In the summer of 1941 soon after the German invasion of Lithuania, the Wisgardisky family was forced into the Kovno ghetto. During the Children's Action of 1942, Henia was hidden in a secret room that her father built in a pantry in their apartment. Later she was smuggled out of the ghetto and placed with the Stankiewicz family. Jonas Stankiewicz had worked as the foreman in Jona Wisgardisky's chemical plant before the war, and had taken it over after the occupation. After successfully securing a hiding place for their daughter, the Wisgardiskys fled from the ghetto. They found refuge on a potato farm, where they lived in a root cellar. After the war they recovered Henia from the Stankiewicz family and made their way to Germany. For several years they lived in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp before emigrating to Palestine. Later the family moved to Canada.

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Genre/Form
    Photographs.
    Extent
    1 folder

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    Kaunas (Lithuania)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Henia Lewin donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in 1995.
    Record last modified:
    2023-02-24 14:04:54
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