Overview
- Description
- Contains photographs depicting the Allerhand family before the war in Krakow; students in the elementary school Alexander Allerhand attended in 1935-1936; portraits of family members sent to Leopold Allerhand while imprisoned in Oflag II-C Woldenburg; and postwar images of the family. Also includes photographs of the Wohlfeiler family before the war in Katowice, and in Krakow after the war; and a wedding photograph of Olek and Krysia Allerband in Krakow on July 15, 1951.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Alexander and Karin Allerhand.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
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
- Prisoner-of-war camps.
- Geographic Name
- Kraków (Poland).
- Corporate Name
- Oflag II C (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Alexander and Karin Allerhand.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:26:54
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Also in Allerhand and Wohlfeiler families collection
Photographs: depicting the Allerhand family before the war in Krakow; students in the elementary school Alexander attended in 1935/1936; portraits of family members sent to Leopold Allerhand imprisoned in Oflag IIc Wollenberg and postwar images of the family. Photographs of Wohlfeiler family before the war in Katowice and in Krakow after the war; wedding photograph of Olek and Krysia Allerband in Krakow on July 15, 1951. Cloth sack the donor and her mother used in Brünlitz concentration camp used to gather food on liberation day, May 1945; 2 stones: one from Umschlagplatz in Warsaw ghetto (small stone) and one from Belzec death camp (larger stone); Piece of cloth embroidered with initials "GA" [Gusta Allerhand] done by Aleksander Allerhand's grandmother. Gusta was murdered while she was a patient in a Jewish hospital in Wieliczka on August 27, 1942; testimony by Henryk Yeheskiel Wohlfiler (donor's paternal uncle) October 1945 in Krakow, Poland; letter written by Dr. Alexander Allerhand (donor's late husband) to Ms. Ewa Koper of the Belzec Museum, answer her questions related to Dr. Allerhand's deportation and subsequent escape from the transport from Wieliczka to Belzec in August 1942.
Cloth sack
Object
Cloth sack the donor and her mother used in Brünlitz concentration camp used to gather food on liberation day, May 1945
Piece of cloth embroidered with initials GA
Object
Piece of cloth embroidered with initials GA (Gusta Allerhand) done by Aleksander Allerhand's grandmother; she was murdered while a patient in a Jewish hospital in Wieliczka, on August 27, 1942.
Piece of stone from Belzec death camp
Object
Small piece of red brick or stone from Belzec death camp
Pebble from Umschlagplatz in the Warsaw ghetto
Object
Pebble from Umschlagplatz in the Warsaw ghetto
Allerhand and Wohlfeiler families papers
Document
Contains a written testimony by engineer Henryk Yeheskiel Wohlfiler (donor's paternal uncle), describing the process of building the Płaszów concentration camp (dated October 1945 in Kraków, Poland); and a letter written by Dr. Alexander Allerhand (donor's late husband) to Ms. Ewa Koper of the Bełżec Museum, answering her questions related to Dr. Allerhand's deportation and subsequent escape from the transport from Wieliczka to Bełżec in August 1942.
