Lilly Gliksman Zaks collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Lilly Gliksman Zaks donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jul. 15, 1996.
Scope and Content
Consists of seven photographs from the Lilly Gliksman Zaks collection; includes pre-war photographs of her brother, Chaim Gliksman, a banker from Bedzin, Poland, who was a member of the Sonderkommando in Birkenau and perished there in 1944; and post-war photographs of Lilly Zaks, her husband Szajo, and their son Jerry, who was born in 1947 in the Stuttgart hospital. Notable is a copy of a false ID card for Szajo Zaks as a Pole, Jan Byczek, and photographs of Zaks while he was posing as Byczek. Szajo Zaks escaped from a deportation to Auschwitz and hid as a Pole for the remainder of the war.
Genre
- Document