Overview
- Description
- Consists of Bencelis Gorodiscas's passport from Lithuania, issued in 1921; the "livret de famille" family book documenting Bencelis's marriage to Malka Mendrzycka (originally of Warsaw) and the births of their children, Marguerite in 1933 and Gilbert in 1944. Also includes a certificate of liberation issued to Bencelis Gorodiscas from the Gurs internment camp in April 1943 and a bill for their immigration to the United States in 1961.
- Date
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inclusive:
1921-1961
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marguerite Holender
- Collection Creator
- Bencelis Gorodiscas
- Biography
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Bencelis Gorodiscas was born in 1889 in Kovno, Lithuania. In 1926, he married Malka Mendrzycka and the couple settled in Paris, where Bencelis was a butcher in the Marais neighborhood. In 1933, their daughter, Marguerite, was born. Soon after the war broke out, the family moved to Saint-Saturnin, where they found a room and stayed until the end of the war. In 1942, Bencelis was arrested and sent to Gurs, where he spent a year. In April 1943, he was released and returned to Saint-Saturnin, but never slept at home, fearing his family would get caught in another arrest. In March 1944, the Gorodiscases welcomed a son, Gilbert. In 1945, they returned to Paris. Marguerite immigrated to the United States in 1952 and her parents followed in 1961.
Physical Details
- Language
- Lithuanian French Lithuanian
- 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
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Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Paris (France) Vilnius (Lithuania) Saint-Saturnin-d'Apt (France)
- Personal Name
- Gorodiscas, Bencelis. Gorodiscas, Malka. Holender, Marguerite Gorodiscas. Gorodiscas, Gilbert.
- Corporate Name
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Marguerite Holender donated her family's papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:41:14
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn61439
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