Letter from Janusz Schwieger to Leopold Infeld
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Janusz Schwieger
Biographical History
Janusz Schwieger was a doctor from Lwow, Poland, (Lʹviv, Ukraine) who was incarcerated in Bergen-Belsen.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
On 15 Aug. 1945, Janusz Schwieger in France wrote a letter to Leopold Infeld, a first cousin of the donor's father, Bernard Infield. Ms. Goldberg donated a copy to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 1992.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a 15 August 1945 letter from Janusz Schwieger in France to Leopold Infeld. The letter regards persecution, deportation, and conditions of Polish Jews and their families (Infeld, Schwieger, and others) in 1943 at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and to transports being sent to Auschwitz from Bergen-Belsen.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Infeld, Leopold, 1898-1968.
- Leontyna.
- Goldberg, Lusia.
- Schwieger, Janusz.
- Tigner.
- Infeld, Bernard.
- Medwinowa.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Poland.
- Women.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Gas chambers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Children.
- Jews--Poland.
- Rescues.
- Deportation.
Genre
- Document