Henryka Wagner Goldsher papers
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Minerva Rosenberg
Minerva Rosenberg donated her aunt's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.
Scope and Content
Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs, correspondence, and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Henryka Wagner (also known as Hencha/Henrica, later Henrietta Goldsher), originally of Warsaw, Poland. Includes pre-war documents, postcards dated 1940, and post-war displaced persons documentation for Henryka, who survived Auschwitz and Majdanek. Also includes documentation related to Selma Goldsher and her brother Saul, who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s; Henryka was a longtime friend of Selma Goldsher and later married Saul.
People
- Goldsher, Henrietta Wagner.
Corporate Bodies
- World ORT Union
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Occupational training for Jews.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document
- Photographs.