Wenceslas J. Wagner papers
Extent and Medium
folder
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Creator(s)
- Wenceslas J. Wagner
Biographical History
Wenceslas Wagner is a native of Poland and a survivor of the Holocaust. He participated in underground resistance. He was eventually captured by the Germans and spent time in several concentration camps. He later became a law professor at the University of Detroit.
Archival History
Wenceslas J. Wagner
Acquisition
Wenceslas J. Wagner donated the materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in November 1990.
Scope and Content
Contains photocopies of personal notes, essays, and newspaper articles written by Wenceslas J. Wagner concerning experiences as a resistance fighter in underground movements in Poland, and as a political prisoner in several Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Wagner, Wenceslas J.
Corporate Bodies
- AK-Home Army (Poland)
Subjects
- Concentration camps--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Political prisoners.
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
Genre
- Document