Schwarz-Krakowiak family papers
Extent and Medium
folders
11
Creator(s)
- Hildegard Schwarz
Biographical History
Hildegard Schwarz, nee Krakowiak, was born in Berlin on July 20, 1909. She completed studies at the Bonn University Dental School in 1936, and immigrated to Shanghai, China, in 1938, where she practiced dentistry. In Shanghai, she met and married Austrian emigre Egon Schwarz. Both were interned by the Japanese during the occupation of Shanghai (ca. 1941-1945), and left China following liberation in 1945, settling in the Jewish emigre community of Sosua, in the Dominican Republic, in 1947. They had one daughter, Sylvia, and became citizens of the Dominican Republic in 1953. Hildegard Schwarz died in Sosua on October 4, 1977.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sylvia Schwarz
Gift of Sylvia Schwarz to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, June 2012.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of 79 postcards sent to Hildegard Krakowiak (later Schwarz), of Shanghai, by her mother, Frieda Krakowiak, of Berlin, 1939-1941; as well as autograph album of Hildegard Krakowiak, 1919-1928.
System of Arrangement
Collection consists of one series, largely consisting of correspondence arranged in chronological order, plus one autograph book.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Sylvia Schwarz
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Berlin.
- Jews, German--China--Shanghai.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Germany--Berlin.
Genre
- Postcards.
- Document
- Autograph books.