Howard Zar collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Howard Zar
Biographical History
Rose Zar (Szoszana Zarnowiecki or Rose Guterman) was born on July 27, 1923 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. After the German invasion, Rose lived in the Piotrków ghetto until April 1940 when she fled to Warsaw where she obtained false identification papers under the name of Wanda Gajda. In December 1942 she moved to Kraków where she worked as a nanny in the home of Kurt Albers, a German SS officer. After the end of World War II, she married a fellow survivor, Mayer Zarnowiecki (Zar), who was interned in Buchenwald and Theresienstadt after leaving the Piotrków ghetto. As displaced persons, the couple worked together at the Lindenfels children's home in Germany where they helped prepare Jewish children for emigration to Palestine.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Howard Zar in 2001.
Scope and Content
Consists of a false birth certificate, false identification card, and false “Kennkarte,” all issued to the donor’s mother, Wanda Regina Gajda (real name Roza Guterman); a certificate of incarceration issued to Majer Zarnowiecki, prisoner no. 94926, stating that he was born in Piotrkow Trybunalski on 17 January 1921, and was incarcerated in a sub camp of Buchenwald; and documents, dated 1946-1950, relating to the donor’s parents, Szoszana and Majer Lejb Zarnowiecki, and their vocational training and work in the Lindenfels displaced persons camp.
People
- Guterman, Roza.
- Zarnowiecki, Szoszana.
- Howard Zar
- Zarnowiecki, Majer Leib.
Genre
- Document
- Certificates.
- Identification cards.