Lilly Gliksman Zaks collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0592

Overview

Description: Consists of seven photographs from the Lilly Gliksman Zaks collection; includes pre-war photographs of her brother, Chaim Gliksman, a banker from Bedzin, Poland, who was a member of the Sonderkommando in Birkenau and perished there in 1944; and post-war photographs of Lilly Zaks, her husband Szajo, and their son Jerry, who was born in 1947 in the Stuttgart hospital. Notable is a copy of a false ID card for Szajo Zaks as a Pole, Jan Byczek, and photographs of Zaks while he was posing as Byczek. Szajo Zaks escaped from a deportation to Auschwitz and hid as a Pole for the remainder of the war.
Date: 1938-1947

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.

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Lilly Gliksman Zaks donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jul. 15, 1996.