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Ada Feingold papers

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2002.56

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    Overview

    Description
    The Ada Feingold papers include two drafts of her memoirs describing the Warsaw ghetto and uprising, correspondence with Ada’s mother in the United States, a photograph labeled “W-wa ghetto 1942 Ala I Alek Młynek (Skotnicki),” a list of surviving Jews in Warsaw as of June 5, 1945 compiled by the Central Jewish Committee in Poland, a 1945 Berlin train ticket, registration certificates documenting Ada’s postwar presence in Łódź, Warsaw, Białystok, and Göteborg and her petition for naturalization in the United States, acknowledgements documenting Ada’s efforts to receive restitution, and a book report Ada wrote about Silas Mariner for an English class.
    Date
    inclusive:  1939-1957
    Collection Creator
    Ada Feingold-Nelson
    Biography
    Ada Feingold (1923-2012) was born in Warsaw to Chaim and Ethel Kołodzianska. She survived the Warsaw Ghetto, escaping just before the uprising. According to her USC Shoah Foundation Institute oral history interview, she adopted the false identity Christina Jedraska and survived the Ravensbrück concentration camp and forced labor at the Oranienburg-Heinkelwerke armaments factory. She immigrated to the United States in 1946 via Göteborg, Sweden, married Julian Feingold in 1949, and was naturalized as an American citizen in 1952.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Polish English
    Extent
    8 folders
    System of Arrangement
    The Ada Feingold papers are arranged as a single series.

    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 the material(s) in this collection. 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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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ada Feingold donated her papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-02-24 14:04:58
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