Zygmunt Wieczorek collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Donna Twardowski
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Donna Twardowski.
Scope and Content
Contains documents, photographs, identity cards, letters, and immigration paperwork for Zygmunt Wieczorek (b. 27 November 1912 in Argemunde, Berlin) who lived in Drążek, Poland. A Roman Catholic who served in the Polish military in Poznan, Wieczorek was captured an interned as a POW in forced labor at Probst shoe factory in Hettstedt, Germany. Includes a postwar letter from the factory owner trying to obtain assistance and detailing conditions in the Soviet Zone in Germany.
Subjects
- Forced labor--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Letters.
- Photographs.
- Identity cards.