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Zofia Chorowicz Burowska collection

Collection
Collection Summary
The collection consists of a doll, teddy bear, book, postcard, letter, and three photographs relating to the experiences of Zofia Chorowicz and her parents Isydor and Rachela before and during the Holocaust in Krakow and Wolbrom, Poland, and of Zofia after the war when she returned to Krakow following her liberation from slave labor.
Provenance
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 and 1991 by Dr. Zofia Burowska.
Date
1930-1945
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Zofia Burowska collection

Document | Accession Number: 1990.224

Armand Marseille doll with knit booties owned by a Polish Jewish girl and recovered postwar

Object | Accession Number: 1990.224.6 a-c

Geography
manufacture: Germany
use: Krakow ghetto; Krakow (Poland)
use: Wolbrom ghetto; Wolbrom (Poland)
recovery: Krakow (Poland)
Date
manufacture:  approximately 1885-1930
received:  after 1930-before 1939
recovered:  after 1945 May
Z Nieznanego swiata Opowiesci Chasydzkie i Ludowe [From the Unknown World: Hasidic and Folk Tales]

Object | Accession Number: 1991.189.1

Geography
publication: Warsaw (Poland)
Date
publication/distribution:  1929
Stuffed brown bear owned by a Polish Jewish girl and recovered postwar

Object | Accession Number: 1991.234.1

Geography
use: Krakow ghetto; Krakow (Poland)
use: Wolbrom ghetto; Wolbrom (Poland)
recovery: Krakow (Poland)
Date
received:  after 1930-before 1939
recovered:  after 1945 May
Stuffed brown bear owned by a Polish Jewish girl and recovered postwar
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