Patti Goldfarb papers
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Patti Goldfarb.
Scope and Content
The papers consist of 13 documents relating to Helena Krystyna Singer, originally of Drohobycz, who worked as a bacteriologist during the war. In 1936, she married Marian Fruchtman and emigrated with him to the Soviet Union in 1941. After Fruchtman's death in 1942, she went to Tehran and married Edmond Herman; the marriage was annulled in 1946. She emigrated to Kenya and worked in a military hospital in Tanzania between 1945-1946 and then emigrated to the United States in 1948. Collection includes pre-war photographs of Helena and her immediate family and documents related to her marital status and wartime medical work.
People
- Singer, Helena Krystyna.
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Kenya--Nairobi.
Genre
- Document
- Passports.
- Identification cards.
- Photographs.