Stella and Chester Szczesny collection

Overview

Collection Summary

Photographs documentating memorialization of Polish Roman Catholic Stanislawa and Czeslaw Szczesny, both survivors of multiple concentration camps and attempts to drown victims (some who survived) Thielbeck and Deutschland ships. Postwar identity card for Czeslaw and wallet in which all were kept.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Edward Szczesny, the son of Stella and Chester Szczesny.