Boleslaw Olomucki collection

Identifier
irn508593
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.308.1
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1972
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn508593

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Boleslaw Olomucki.

Scope and Content

Consists of photographs, a newpaper clipping, and a document, including: (1) a letter written by an unknown woman in the bunker in the Warsaw ghetto during the uprising in April 1943; (2) six photographs depicting Warsaw in 1946 and in 1960; (3) one photograph, dated October 1939, of three German soldiers in the Łódź, Poland, town square after demolishing a statue; (4) one postcard bearing an image, used in German propaganda, of six Orthodox Jewish men in a resort; and (5) one clipping by S.L. Shneiderman in the Israeli newspaper "Nowiny i Kurier" about Artur Szyk, circa 1972, in Polish.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.