Overview
- Description
- One image depicts prisoners from Klettendorf labor camp shoveling snow in preparation for the construction of an autobahn to run between Breslau and Berlin, Germany, and the other image is a portrait of Jacob Hennenberg in uniform from Waldenburg concentration camp (a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen). A third image depicts Jacob Hennenberg just after liberation.
- Date
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inclusive:
1942-1945
- Collection Creator
- Jacob Hennenberg
- Biography
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Jacob Hennenberg was born in the city of Oswiecim, Poland, in 1924. After the Germans invaded in September of 1939, he and his father walked east to the town on the River San, but returned later to Oswiecim. His father's store was required to have a Jewish Star on the window and all Jews had a curfew. In March 1941 there was an order for the Jewish population to leave. They went to Chrzanow where the Jewish Community assigned them a room. On May 9, 1941 there was a "razzia" (round up). A soldier entered their apartment and ordered Jacob's father to follow him. Jacob, then about 17 offered to take his father's place. He was sent to the Bavarian village of Wiesau and incarcerated in RAB lager -- Reichsautobahn Lager (which became Zwangarbeitslager Wiesau), where the inmates dug the highway. He was sent to a number of other towns to work on the Autobahn before being sent to Klettendorf where he remained until 1943. Next he was sent to Freiberg where there was a selection. He and other able bodied inmates were sent to Waldenburg where he became inmate number 64242. He was also interned in Stuthoff concentration camp. He was liberated from the camp on May 9, 1945.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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2 folders
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is chronological
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Prisoners--Poland--1940-1950.
- Personal Name
- Hennenberg, Jacob.
- Corporate Name
- Waldenburg (Concentration camp) Klettendorf (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Original photographer unknown. Copy prints of the images donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Jacob Hennenberg in 1989.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:07:09
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Also in Jacob Hennenberg collection
The papers consist of two certificates and two letters of recommendation issued to Jacob Hennenberg [donor] relating to his experiences as a displaced person after World War II. Two of the certificates have photos of the donor attached. The collection also includes an advertisement sign for the Jakob Haberfeld spirit refinery and liquor factory, and other documents related to his experiences. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Sign advertising the Haberfeld liquor factory in Oświęcim
Object
Advertisement sign for Jakob Haberfeld spirit refinery and liquor factory in Oświęcim, Poland.
Records relating to the Jacob Hennenberg family
Document
Collection includes an article by Jacob Hennenberg concerning a Jewish sports club founded in Oświęcim, Poland, in 1921; photographs showing Hennenberg's family; Hennenberg in concentration clothing shortly after his liberation from Waldenburg (a subcamp of Gross-Rosen); and Hennenberg in a forced labor group of Jewish prisoners from Klettendorf, Germany. Half of one page contains a photograph of a postcard sent from the town of Oświęcim some time during the German occupation; the other, showing a group of young people, is accompanied by a caption that says it was taken at "Auschwitz during the German occupation." Actually, the photo appears to have been taken in a ghetto.
Jacob Hennenberg papers
Document
The papers consist of two certificates and two letters of recommendation issued to Jacob Hennenberg relating to his experiences as a displaced person after World War II.
