Wallace Witkowski photograph collection

Identifier
irn515491
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.240
  • RG-10.425
Dates
1 Jan 1943 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Wallace A. Witkowski was born in 1928 in Kielce, Poland, to a Polish Catholic family. His father was a chemical engineer, and his mother was a teacher. The Germans occupied Kielce in 1939. Wallace witnessed pogroms against Jews in 1942. Wallace was active in the resistance, acting as a courier between partisan groups. In 1946, in liberated Poland, Wallace witnessed the Kielce pogrom. He emigrated to the United States in 1949.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Wallace Witkowski donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.

Scope and Content

The three photographs in the collection are studio portraits of Wallace Witkowski in 1945, Wallace Witkowski and his sister in 1946, and Wallace Witkowski's mother in 1943.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is in the order in which received

People

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.