Overview
- Description
- Consists of documents and photographs relating to Oscar Albert (donor’s father), born on August 30, 1924 in Rzeszów, Poland; he survived the Rzeszów ghetto and Pustków forced labor camp. In March 1943 he was deported to the Mielec slave labor camp and later to the Flossenbürg concentration camp, where he was liberated on April 23, 1945 together with his father, Salomon Albert. Documents include diplomas, a passport, correspondence, a school notebook, and travel documents. Also includes a collection of documents and photographs relating to Herman and Bernard Jeżower (donor’s paternal great uncles).
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Helen Albert
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs. Correspondence.
- Extent
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1 box
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Forced labor
- Geographic Name
- Rzeszów (Poland)
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 2014 by Helen Albert.
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- 2023-06-08 07:43:26
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Also in Doba Drezner and Oscar Albert and Bernard and Herman Jezower collection
The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman and Bernard Jezower, and a wooden cover, metal box, toolbox, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Oscar Albert, who was deported from the Rzeszow ghetto and imprisoned Plaszow forced labor camp, Mielec slave labor camp, and Flossenburg concentration camp, after the war in a displaced persons camp, and a metal box, wooden cover, and poesie album relating to the experiences of Doba Drezner in an orphanage in Czestochowa, Poland. An accretion of documents, photographs, correspondence, books and a ring was donated in 2015. An accretion of photos, selective service registration card and a Yiddish-Hebrew dictionary was donated in 2017.
Date: 1947-1948
Wooden cover with an engraved image of a couple
Object
Wooden cover with an engraving of a couple owned by Doba and Oscar Dreszner.
Toolbox given to a Polish refugee in a DP camp vocational class
Object
Toolbox given to Oscar Albert during his vocational training in ORT school in the Schwandorf DP camp.
Green metal box with a map of South Africa received by a girl in a Jewish orphanage
Object
Metal box received by Doba Dreszner in the Jewish orphanage in Czestochowa, Poland. It was sent by a Jewish family in South Africa as part of the South African Jewish War Appeal.
Book
Object
This book, published in 1942 by D.C. Heath and Company, originally belonged to the Theodore Roosevelt Evening High School. Doba Dreszner acquired the book in 1949.
Book
Object
This book, published in 1934 by Ginn and Company, originally belonged to the Theodore Roosevelt Evening High School. Doba Dreszner acquired the book in 1949.
Book
Object
This book, published in 1928 by D.C. Heath and Company, originally belonged to the Theodore Roosevelt Evening High School. Doba Dreszner acquired the book in 1949 while taking evening classes at the school.
Book
Object
This book, published in 1947 by Henry Holt and Company, originally belonged to the Theodore Roosevelt Evening High School. Doba Dreszner acquired the book in 1949.
Handbook
Object
This book, published in 1950 by Henry Holt and Company, was bought by Oscar Albert, the donor's father, in 1951. According to the donor, her father learned at age 15 to be a metal worker in five different concentration camps working for Heinkel and Messerschmitt building Luftwaffe planes for the Nazis. He came to the United States, used those skills learned in slave labor factories and levereged them to obtain positions in factories in America. He eventually rose to be an executive manager in a large national corporation engaged in manufacturing.
Book
Object
This book, published in 1948 in Poland by the Komitet Upowszechnienia Ksiazki, was acquired by the donor's mother in 1948 and brought to the United States. She received it in either the Czestochowa or Krakow Children's Orphanage. It was the only book she brought with her.
Book
Object
This book, published in 1946 by the Conference on Jewish Relations, New York, was acquired by the donor's uncle in 1951. According to the donor, her Uncle Herman was a well-read man, who had season tickets to the opera at the Met, and dressed fashionably from stores like Barneys. He came from a family of tailors, worked in a dry goods store, and lived in Austria after the war. All these had an effect on him and he had a distinguished aura despite circumstances that kept him from going futher in life and business.
Doba Drezner, Oscar Albert, and Bernard and Herman Jezower papers
Document
Contains photographs, documents, and an autograph album related to the experiences of Herman and Bernard Jezower; Oscar Albert, who was deported from the Rzeszów ghetto and imprisoned Płaszów forced labor camp, Mielec slave labor camp, and Flossenbürg concentration camp; and Doba Drezner's experiences in an orphanage in Czestochowa, Poland.
