Rose Schwartz photographs

Identifier
irn594566
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.398.2
  • 2008.398.1
  • 2008.399.1
Dates
1 Jan 1949 - 31 Dec 1954
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn594566

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Rose (Rivke) Schwartz

Biographical History

Rose Schwartz was born Rivke Fiszbaum in 1924 in Kozienice, Poland to shoemaker Shmue Matisl (1896-1970) and Basia Serla Fiszbaum (1899-1940). She had two older brothers, David Baruch (b. 1919) and Itzhak (1922-1975), and two younger sisters, Sara Scendle (1926-1976) and Chanah Broocher (1933-1937). Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Rose's family was confined to the ghetto in 1940, and Rose worked cleaning homes. Most of the ghetto was killed at Treblinka in September 1942, but Rose was sent to work in an ammunitions factory in Skarzysko Kamienna. In 1944 she was sent to antoher ammunitions factory in Leipzig, Germany, until her liberation in may 1945. Her father and siblings Itzhak and Sara also survived the Holocaust, but her mother and brother David were killed. Rose moved to the Feldafing displaced persons camp and married Abram Saul Schwartz in 1946.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rose (Rivke) Schwartz

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rose "Rivke" Schwartz

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Rose Schwartz donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008. An accession formerly cataloged as 2008.399.1 has been incorporated into this collection.

Scope and Content

Consists of 12 post-war photographs of Holocaust survivors at the 1949 exhumation and rebural of victims killed by Nazis in Kozienice, Poland and at a 1954 memorial event for Kozienice survivors in Wrocław, Poland. The photographer's identity is unknown.

System of Arrangement

The Rose Schwartz photographs are arranged as a single series.

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Kozienice.
  • Kozienice (Poland)
  • Holocaust survivors--Poland--Kozienice.
  • Wrocław (Poland)

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.