Overview
- Description
- Contains documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Leah (Lonia) Kirschenbaum and Uscher Mossak (Mosak) and their internment in concentration camps and displaced persons camps in Poland and Austria.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lonia Mosak and Doris Lazarus, in memory of Oscar Mosak, husband and father
Physical Details
- Extent
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2 folders
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the USHMM in 2017 by Doris Mosak Lazarus.
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- 2024-10-25 09:25:46
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Also in Oscar and Leah Mosak collection
The Oscar and Leah Mosak collection includes documents, photographs, and a striped prisoner jacket documenting Oscar Mosak, who survived Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Ebensee, and Leah Mosak, who survived Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe. Documents include certificates and identification papers tracing the couple’s Holocaust experiences, their stay at the Bad Ischl displaced persons camp, and their marriage. Photographs depict Oscar and Leah Mosak and their relatives and friends in prewar Poland, postwar Łódź and Bialystok, and at the Bad Ischl displaced persons camp. Of note are copyprints of Oscar Mosak wearing the striped prisoner jacket and of Leah Mosak’s friend, Roza Robata, who participated in a failed Auschwitz revolt. Oscar Mosak wore the striped prisoner jacket at Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Ebensee and during memorial events after liberation.
Date: circa 1931-1991
Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by Oscar Mosak
Object
Blue and gray striped concentration camp uniform jacket worn by Uscher Mosak while imprisoned in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Ebensee concentration camps from December 17, 1942 to May 6, 1945. On September 5, 1939, the German army occupied Uscher’s town, Plonsk, Poland. After May 1941, Uscher, wife Perla, and children, Mirjam and Hirsz, were interned in the closed ghetto. In December 1942, Uscher and his family were transported to Auschwitz and separated. He was assigned prisoner number 84225 and was a tailor in the camp. On January 18, 1945, as Soviet forces approached, Uscher was sent on a forced march to Mauthausen in Austria, then transported to Ebensee. On May 6, Uscher was liberated by US soldiers and transferred to Bad Ischl displaced persons camp. He learned that his wife and children had been killed upon arrival at Auschwitz. Four of his five brothers were killed fighting in the Soviet Army. In November 1948, Uscher and his second wife, Lonia, immigrated to the United States.
Lonia Mosak identity card
Document
A postwar identity card issued to Lonia Mosak stating she is a former victim interned in concentration camps Auschwitz in Poland and Ravensbrueck in Germany.
