Rose and Mayer Zar collection, 1946-1948

Identifier
irn520069
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.261.1
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Yiddish
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn520069

Extent and Medium

oversize box

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

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Howard Zar

Howard Zar donated his parents' collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002.

Scope and Content

Consists of a photograph album assembled by the donor’s parents, Rose and Mayer Zar, documenting their activities with “Hashomer Hatzair” youth in the Lindenfels displaced persons camp and 73 photographic portraits that Jewish child survivors presented as a parting memento to Rose and Mayer Zar. Most of the children survived in hiding during the Holocaust. Rose and Mayer Zar prepared the children for emigration to Palestine.

People

  • Zarnowiecki, Mayer.
  • Howard Zar
  • Zar, Mayer.
  • Zarnowiecki, Szoszana.

Corporate Bodies

  • World Hashomer Hatzair

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.

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