Ajzyk and Chaja Kawalek Celnik family collection

Identifier: irn49654
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Regina Feierberg, the daughter of Ajzyk and Chaja Kawalek Celnik.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a matzah cover, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ajzyk and Chaja Kawalek Celnik and their families during and after the Holocaust in Kalisz and Zdunska Wola, Poland.

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Kawałek and Celnik families papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn85412
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 12 months ago
Contains photographs depicting the Kawałek family in the Zduńska Wola ghetto c. 1941-2, including Samuel and Jakub Celnik, two sons of Ajzyk Celnik, who perished in the Warsaw ghetto. Also contains photographs depicting the Celnik family after the war in Zduńska Wola; photographs sent to Chaja Kawałek Celnik (donor’s mother) from her relatives in Sweden; and a document issued to Ajzyk Celnik in 1960 in Zduńska Wola.
Handmade floral whitework matzoh cover recovered by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn85415
- English
- 1945
- overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm)
- Updated 12 months ago
Doily style whitework matzoh cover made for Passover seder, the only item recovered by Ajzyk Celnik upon his return to his hometown, Kalisz, Poland, after the war. It has the words "Seder shel Pesach" in eyelet embroidery. The cover was saved and returned by the superintendent of the building where Ajzyk lived. Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany in September 1939. Ajzyk, a kosher butcher, his wife Hanka and their sons Samuel and Jakub left Kalisz, and, by 1940, were living in Krakow. The family was sent to Warsaw where Hanka and the boys perished. Ajzik was transported to Jaworzno labor ca...

Ajzyk and Chaja Kawalek Celnik family collection

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Kawałek and Celnik families papers

Handmade floral whitework matzoh cover recovered by a Polish Jewish survivor