Overview
- Description
- The papers consist of photographs and documents relating to Izak Rosenwasser's imprisonment in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and his attending and graduating from the ghetto high school and including his sister's auto-portrait and a document stating where she was buried in 1943.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Izak Rozenwasser
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Report cards. Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Izak and Dr. Roza Rosenwasser in 2005.
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- 2023-02-24 14:15:27
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Also in Izak Rozenwasser collection
The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Izak Rozenwasser and his family before and during the Holocaust in Poland.
Date: 1938-1943
Pencil drawing of a young woman done in the Łódź ghetto
Object
Self-portrait by Hela Rozenwasser, done from a photograph, when she was about 18 years old and living in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland. She was imprisoned there, with her family, in September 1940, following the German occupation of Poland. In June, 1942, her father, Chaim, died. That September, her mother, Rajzl, was deported to the Chelmno killing center. Hela died of tuberculosis on May 11, 1943; her older brother, Szmul, would die 2 months later. Only her brother, Izak, age 24, who was deported to Hasag to serve as slave labor in February 1944, survived the Holocaust.
Pencil drawing of a man done in the Łódź ghetto
Object
Portrait of Chaim Rozenwasser, done by his daughter, Hela, when she was about 18 years old and living in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland. The Rozenwasser family was imprisoned there in September 1940, following the German occupation of Poland. In June, 1942, Chaim died. That September, her mother, Rajzl, was deported to the Chelmno killing center. Hela died of tuberculosis on May 11, 1943; her older brother, Szmul, would die 2 months later. Only her brother, Izak, age 24, who was deported in February 1944, to Hasag to serve as slave labor, survived the Holocaust.
