Allerhand and Wohlfeiler families collection

Overview

Collection Summary

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.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Alexander and Karin Allerhand.