Rose and Mayer Zar papers

Identifier
irn511755
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.264.1
Dates
1 Jan 1948 - 31 Dec 1951
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

3

Creator(s)

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

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Howard Zar

The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Howard Zar in 2002.

Scope and Content

The papers consist of documents relating to Rose and Mayer Zar's (formerly Szoszana and Mayer Zarnowiecki) [donor's parents] residence in different DP camps in Germany and include inoculation certificates, registration cards, the birth certificate of their firstborn son, Awiron Zarnowiecki, and his death certificate indicating that the little boy drowned on May 29, 1951, reparations payment certificates, and announcements.

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