Rose Galek Brunswic collection

Identifier: irn514352
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Rose Galek Brunswic in 1989.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a forced labor badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Raszka (Rose) Galek and her family during the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and of Raszka when she lived under an assumed identity and was sent as a forced laborer to Germany, as well as after the war when Rose lived in a displaced placed persons camp in Germany until her emigration to the United States.

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Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Polish Jewish woman in hiding as a Catholic
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514353
- English
- overall: Height: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Forced labor badge with a purple P on a yellow field, worn by 23 year old Raszka Galek to mark her as a Polish forced laborer on a farm in Krummhardt, Germany, from June 1943 to April 1945. At this time, Raszka, who was Jewish, was hiding under the assumed identity of a Polish Catholic named Maria Kowalczyk. She was required to wear the badge at all times. She was caught twice without it and was severely beaten by a police officer and taken to court and fined. In November 1940, about a year after the German occupation of Poland, Rose, her parents Moshe and Fela, and sister Deana and Sala we...

Rose Galek Brunswic collection

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Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Polish Jewish woman in hiding as a Catholic