David Mielzynski papers

Document | Accession Number: 1989.208.8

Date: 1939-1945 (inclusive)
Language: German
Extent: 1 folder
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Elizabeth Mills

Document Creator: David Mielzynski
Biography: David Mielzynski (1910-1988) was born in Schwersenz, Posen (Swarzędz, Poland) and lived in Berlin with his wife Elizabeth (born Liesbeth Sieradzki, 1913). She left Berlin for England expecting him to follow in two weeks. Instead he was trapped in Germany and survived for three years hidden in a toolshed on a field in Berlin-Lichterfelde, 2 miles from SS Headquarters. He was liberated by the Russians, immigrated to the United States in September 1946, and changed his name to Mills. His wife’s entire family from Poznan, Łódź, and Warsaw perished in the Holocaust.
System of Arrangement: The David Mielzynski papers are arranged as a single series: I. David Mielzynski papers, 1939-1945
Topical Term: Jews--Poland--Swarzędz.
Jews--Germany--Berlin.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
Hiding places--Germany--Berlin.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Germany--Berlin.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Elizabeth Mills donated the David Mielzynski papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
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Also in David Mielzynski collection

The collection consists of a document excluding David Mielzynski from service in the Wehrmacht, two identification cards, three calendars which David Mielzynski used in hiding, and a Star of David badge.

Date: 1939-1945