Ada Feingold papers
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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
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inclusive:
1939-1957
- Collection Creator
- Ada Feingold-Nelson
- Biography
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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
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Photographs.
- Extent
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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.
- Copyright Holder
- Ada Feingold-Nelson
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- 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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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511889
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