Kerpholtz family papers
- Language
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Polish
- Genre/Form
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Postcards.
Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sophia Kalski
The papers consists of three photographs of the Kerpholtz family and friends and two postcards sent from the ghetto in Lʹwow, Poland, (now Lʹviv, Ukraine) to Betty Köppel (one was written by Natan Kerpholtz [donor's father]).
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Record last modified: 2017-09-12 11:52:11
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Also in Sophia Kalski and Sarah Kerpholz collection
The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Sophia Kalski and Sarah Kerpholz while living in Trembowla and in hiding in Poland during the Holocaust.
Date: 1942-1944
Embroidered pink slip worn while in hiding in Poland
Object
Slip worn by Sarah Kerpholz during the period of the Holocaust. Sarah, age 33, and her family were forced by the occupying German authorities into the Jewish ghetto in Trembowla, Poland (Terebovlia, Ukraine), in 1942. Her husband, Natan, escaped to Lvov, but ended up in the ghetto there. Their 10-year-old daughter, Zosia (Sophia), was sent to him, with the intent to find her a safe hiding place. But Natan, age 38, died of typhus in January 1943, and Zosia had to escape and get back to Trembowla on her own. In 1943, Sarah and Zosia escaped from the ghetto as it was being liquidated. They eventually reached Humniska, Poland, where former neighbors of Sarah's parents, Anna and Voitek Gutonski, hid them in a barn with an underground hiding place for over 8 months, until the Soviet army liberated the area in March 1944.
Tan armband with a Star of David worn in the Trembowla ghetto
Object
Armband worn by Sarah Kerpholz in the Trembowla ghetto in Poland. Sarah, age 33, and her family were forced by the occupying German authorities into the Jewish ghetto in Trembowla, Poland (Terebovlia, Ukraine), in 1942. Her husband, Natan, escaped to Lvov, but ended up in the ghetto there. Their 10-year-old daughter, Zosia (Sophia), was sent to him, with the intent to find her a safe hiding place. But Natan, age 38, died of typhus in January 1943, and Zosia had to escape and get back to Trembowla on her own. In 1943, Sarah and Zosia escaped from the ghetto as it was being liquidated. They eventually reached Humniska, Poland, where former neighbors of Sarah's parents, Anna and Voitek Gutonski, hid them in a barn with an underground hiding place for over 8 months, until the Soviet army liberated the area in March 1944.
