Wolf Bulanski papers
Extent and Medium
box
oversize folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Family of William Bellan
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by the family of William Bellan (Wolf Bulanski).
Scope and Content
Photograph album, loose photographic prints, documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Wolf Bulanski (donor's father) who was born in Telechany, Poland [present-day Belarus] in 1912. Included is an extensive photo album and loose photographs spanning the 1920s and 1930s in Poland and then later in Belgium where Wolf studied and earned a medical degree. Documents illustrate his education in Poland and Belgium, and war-time in Belgium working as a physician and surviving under the false name "Henri Joba." Also included are WWI postcards from "Oswei Bilansky" (donor's paternal grandfather) from a German prisoner of war camp to "T. Bilianskaya" (donor's paternal grandmother) in Gomel, Soviet Union.
Genre
- Photograph albums.
- Postcards.
- Document