History of the family Wos the dream comes true
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The memoir/family history was created by Elena S. Whiteside as told to her by Paul Wos, Irena Wos Madejska, Odon Wos, and Wanda Wos Lorenc. The donor presumably left photocopied sections (i.e., introductory pages and chapters by Paul Wos and Irena Wos Madejska) when she visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department in May 1992. That department passed on the materials (or photocopies of some) to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives ca. Sept. 1992.
Scope and Content
Contains information about the Wos family from the late nineteenth century to World War II, including references to the helpfulness of Mr. Wos' father, a Polish Catholic, to Jews during the existence of the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, gives information on Polish resistance to the German occupation of Poland; deportations; Ravensbrück; forced labor in Germany; repatriation; post war life under the communist regime in Poland; and emigration to the United States.
People
- Madejska, Irena Wos.
- Wos, Irena.
- Wos, Pawel.
- Wos, Paul.
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Poles--Crimes against.
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
- Women concentration camp guards.
- Genealogy.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Poland--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
Genre
- Document