Zajaczkowska family collection

Overview

Collection Summary

Collection of photographs and documents, with photographs depicting Basia Rubinstein Zajaczkowska (donor's mother) in Solberga, Sweden where she was recuperating after surviving the Kielce ghetto, Pionki forced labor camp and Ravensbrück concentration camp. Documents include two telegrams, one of them regarding the house in Kielce, sent to the New Palestine DP camp in Austria and the other sent to Sweden notifying Basia that her brother, Leon Zajaczkowski, in a Polish Army camp, and that her husband is in Italy. It also includes pre and post war photographs, vaccination cards, baggage claim checks, photocopy of marriage certificate, correspondence, identification cards, affidavit, dress, slip, and matching bag.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 and 2018 by Joyce Pollakoff.