Overview
- Description
- The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to the Holocaust experiences of the Kurc family, originally of Radom, Poland, including Addy Kurc’s emigration from France to Brazil, Halina Eichenwald (née Kurc) and her husband Adam Eichenwald’s survival in Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) and Warsaw, Poland with the use of false identification papers, and the postwar reunification of family members in Poland and Brazil.
Documents primarily relate to Addy, his sister Halina, and her husband and Adam. Documents of Addy consist of French military and medical records, including a forged discharge document needed to leave France, and documents confirming a medical condition rendering him ineligible for military service; and documents related to his emigration from France to Brazil. Included with these documents are a visa application for Venezuela, documents related to passage from Marseille, France to Brazil via the S.S. Alsina, including a pass to leave the ship while it was detained in Dakar, Senegal in 1941, and a document granting him permission to find passage to Brazil on another ship.
Documents related to Halina and Adam Eichenwald include passports and identification cards, and two architecture study notebooks belonging to Adam. There are also several false identification documents of Halina and Adam under the name Halina and Adam Brzoza, including identification cards, a marriage certificate, and employment records.
Other documents in the collection include a personal narrative from Addy’s wife Caroline Kurc describing how they met in Rio de Janeiro, and a diploma and military card belonging to Genek Kurc.
Photographs include depictions of Addy serving in the French Army and in Dakar; his brother Genek in uniform in Egypt, 1943; prewar depictions of the Kurc and Rozsenszpir families; and postwar depictions of the Kurc family in Poland and Brazil. - Date
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inclusive:
circa 1910-1948
undated:
bulk: 1940-1946
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the grandchildren and great grandchildren of Shlomo and Nechuma Kurc
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish English French Portuguese
- Genre/Form
- Photographs Passports.
- Extent
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11 folders
1 oversize folder
- System of Arrangement
- The collection is arranged as a single series by surname.
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 the material(s) in this collection. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2024 by Ricardo Eichenwald, Anna Prasquier, Josef Kurc, Michel Kurc, Kathleen Courts, Isabelle Courts Hunter, Timothy Courts, and Georgia Hunter Farinholt.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-09-16 09:37:00
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Wallet owned by Eddy Courts
Object
The wallet is part of a collection consisting of documents, notebooks, diaries, photographs, identification documents, correspondence, telegrams, and a passport documenting the experiences and survival of the Kurc family, originally from Radom, Poland, during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The wallet originally contained 20 pages of documents from 1940, including French military and other documentation about attempts to escape from Europe by ship from Marseille, France.
