Rosalyn Orenstein collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518788
• English
• 1939-1945
• overall: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm)
• Updated 11 months ago

Identification tag issued to Wiktor Lerhaft, a Polish soldier who was imprisoned in Oflag XI, a German prisoner of war (POW) camp from 1939-1945. In September 1939, the Germans invaded Poland and Wiktor was mobilized as a lieutenant in the Polish army. The Germans took him prisoner and he spent the remainder of the war in Oflag [Stalag] XI. A, a POW camp in Altengrabow, Germany. The war ended in May 1945 and Wiktor returned to Krakow. He reunited with his daughter, Roza, who had been deported from the Krakow ghetto in January 1943, and had survived several concentration camps. All of their ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524041
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 11 months ago

Collection consists of documents and photographs: an eight-page typed document with impressions of the Atlantic crossing from Germany to the U.S. by Wiktor Lerhaft in May 1949 and documents from the SS General Howze; photograph of Wiktor Lerhaft, Rosalyn Lerhaft and Regina Landersdorfer on board the SS General Howze and photographs from a Passover Seder at the Jewish Community of Wiesbaden, Germany, 1948.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524321
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 11 months ago

Two page letter written by Dr. David Lehrhaft, in Krakow, to his younger sister in Newark, NJ in which he describes the political situation in Poland as well as the family situation in Krakow. The two page letter has been laminated.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524382
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 11 months ago

Collection consists of documents, photographs, identification cards, and scrip.