Reproduction

Identifier
irn513017
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.332.2
Dates
1 Jan 1951 - 31 Dec 1951
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

Archival History

The catalog was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Rose Kwar Rose.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rose K. Rose

Scope and Content

Partial set of art reproductions by Janiny Tollik that belonged to Roza Kwar. The prints were created after the war. After Nazi Germany occupied L'vov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) in June 1941, Roza, 14, and her parents, Benzion and Tinka, were moved to the Jewish ghetto and assigned to forced labor. In August 1942, Benzion purchased false papers for her. She escaped and went to live with Krystyna Moskalik, a Polish schoolteacher, in Sieciechiowice. That area was liberated by the Soviet Army in January 1945 and in May, after the war ended, Roza went to Krakow to further her education. She continued to live under her false identity as a Catholic because of the intense antisemitism. Roza learned that her parents had died of typhus and only three of her large extended family had survived the destruction of the ghetto. Family members in New York, learning that she might have survived, found her in Krakow. They arranged for Roza and her maternal aunt, Frieda Herzer, to emigrate to the United States via Cuba in January 1948.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Two prints with textual information from a larger portfolio of art reproductions.

People

Subjects

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.