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Wallace Witkowski photograph collection

Document | Accession Number: 1990.240 | RG Number: RG-10.425

The three photographs in the collection are studio portraits of Wallace Witkowski in 1945, Wallace Witkowski and his sister in 1946, and Wallace Witkowski's mother in 1943.

Date
inclusive:  1943-1946
Genre/Form
Portrait photographs.
Extent
1 folder

About This Document

Document Creator
Wallace A. Witkowski
Biography
Wallace A. Witkowski was born in 1928 in Kielce, Poland, to a Polish Catholic family. His father was a chemical engineer, and his mother was a teacher. The Germans occupied Kielce in 1939. Wallace witnessed pogroms against Jews in 1942. Wallace was active in the resistance, acting as a courier between partisan groups. In 1946, in liberated Poland, Wallace witnessed the Kielce pogrom. He emigrated to the United States in 1949.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is in the order in which received

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Wallace Witkowski donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use
Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. 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.

 
Record last modified: 2022-03-11 14:45:31
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