Overview
- Description
- The collection consists of photographs of Morris Kornberg and his friends; an identification card for the Jewish Community of Wuerttemberg (Israelitische Kultusvereinigung Württemberg); and a commemorative album with tipped-in photographs by Alexander Fiedel of the "Jidiszer D.P. Center UNRRA - P.C. IRO in Stuttgart" written by M. Kornberg.
- Date
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inclusive:
1934-1948
- Collection Creator
- Morris Kornberg
- Biography
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Morris Kornberg was born in Przebr̤z, Poland on Jan. 6, 1918. He was the youngest of seven children in a strictly Orthodox family. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, he was forced to work. He lived in a ghetto and worked in a factory. Morris was imprisoned in Klonskie, a prison in Poland, taken to Radom, Poland, and then to Jawischowitz, a subcamp of Auschwitz in Poland. He worked in a coal mine and received special treatment by the SS for his memory for numbers. He was evacuated to Tröglitz, a subcamp of Buchenwald in Germany, in Jan.1945. Tröglitz was evacuated on Apr. 9, 1945. Morris was put on a train and escaped with two others. They were caught and forced on a death march to Leitmeritz, a subcamp of Flossenbürg in Germany, then to Theresienstadt (Terezi̕n), a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where he was liberated. He went to a sanitarium outside of Stuttgart, Germany. He met his wife in Stuttgart and immigrated to the United States in 1949.
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Morris Kornberg collection is arranged in a single series.
Rights & 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.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Youth organizations--1930-1940. Refugees--Germany--Stuttgart--1940-1950. Refugee camps--Germany--Stuttgart--1940-1950.
- Geographic Name
- Württemberg (Germany)
- Personal Name
- Kornberg, Morris, 1918- Ettingen, Mandek. Beer, Julius.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Morris Kornberg donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-23 13:46:52
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