Sprung and Braksmajer families collection

Overview

Collection Summary

Documents, photographs, an oral testimony, and correspondence illustrating the Sprung and Braksmajer families before, during, and after the Holocaust. Sisters Frieda and Blanche Sprung, born in Poland, lived in Rawa Ruska before the war, managed to secure false documents in the names of Tatiana Osemek and Katharina Lazar/Antonia Osymak respectively, and survived in several slave labor camps. Also documented is Schol Braksmajer whom married Frieda Sprung in 1947 after they met in Eschwege displaced persons camp in Germany.

Provenance

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Saul Braksmajer, with the accretion of an oral testimony in 2019.