Henry and Fay Bialowas collection
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Henry Bialowas
- Fay Bialowas
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fay Bialowas
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Henry and Fay Bialowas.
Scope and Content
The Henry and Fay Bialowas collection includes four postcards Fay received from 1942-1943 while she was interned as a slave laborer in Ober Altstadt, a sub-camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, from her father, Icek Gerschenowitz, who was imprisoned in Gleiwitz II (Gleiwitz-Steigern Judenlager) and from her mother, Hinda Gerschenowitz, who was confined to the ghetto in Sosnowiec, Poland. The collection also includes photographs found by Maks Bialowas, Henry's brother, who survived the Łódź ghetto and recovered the images after liberation. One image shows a group including Maks’ wife Henia, who perished in the Holocaust.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Łódź (Poland)
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Sosnowiec.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document
- Photographs.