Gina Kaeser papers
Extent and Medium
folders
3
Creator(s)
- Gina Kaeser
Biographical History
Gina Kaeser was born in Illinois to Holocaust surivors Henry (1910-1988) and Gustava Skrovonsky (1909-1990). Henry was born in Poland and survived the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps. Gustava was born in Warsaw, Poland to Joseph Goldzweig-Thursz and Felicia Weisholt and survived the Bergen Belsen, Majdanek, Mauthausen, and Poniatowa concentration camps. Their son Jerome Fein (1929-1974) was also born in Poland and survived the Holocaust.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gina Kaeser
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Gina Skovronsky Kaeser.
Scope and Content
Papers consist of documents, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Heinrich and Gustava Skovronsky [donor's parents] during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Some of the photographs were saved by Gustava while in the concentration camps by keeping them wrapped up in her hair with a comb.
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Poland.
- Jews--Poland.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Letters.
- Identification documents.