Overview
- Description
- Consists of copyprints of the family of Alfred and Stefa Ungar, who lived in Krakow, Poland, with their children Adam and Kuka (now Helen). Includes pre-war copyprints of the family, copyprints of the family at the labor camp of Krakow-Prokocim, and copyprints of Alfred Ungar in his concentration camp uniform, alone and with other prisoners, after their liberation from Buchenwald. Also includes a copyprint and published article about the memory of Adam Ungar, who was remembered at the bar mitzvah of Daniel Pyser.
- Date
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inclusive:
1933-2011
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Helen Finkelstein
- Collection Creator
- Helen Finkelstein
- Biography
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Helen (Kuka) Finkelstein, nee Ungar, was born in Krakow, Poland in 1933 to Alfred and Stefania Ungar. She had one older brother named Adam. Following the German invasion of Poland, the Ungar family was deported to a concentration camp in Prokocim, Poland. Helen was eventually smuggled out of the camp, and lived with two nearby families until the end of the war. Stefania Ungar and Adam Ungar were both killed in the camp, and Alfred Ungar survived a series of concentration camps and was briefly reunited with his daughter Helen after the war. At that time, Helen went to live with an aunt in Czechoslovakia for eight years and in Germany for another year and a half before immigrating to the United States, where she rejoined her father, who had settled in Los Angeles.
Physical Details
- 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
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
- Copyright Holder
- Finkelstein, Helen
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Kraków.
- Personal Name
- Ungar, Alfred. Ungar, Stefania. Finkelstein, Helen. Ungar, Adam.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Helen Ungar Finkelstein donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:41:49
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