Sass and Sygal families papers

Consists of documents, photographs and correspondence. The collection pertains to the experience of Paul (Pesach) Sass, his wife Bernice (Bronia) Sass (née Sygal) and their families. A number of Sass and Segal family members survived the Holocaust in Poland. They later lived as displaced persons in Cremona, Italy where 3 Sass siblings (Pesach, Schaja, and Nechama) married three Sygal siblings (Bronia, Ruth, and Szamu). The collection also includes a document confirming Pesach Sass's release from Majdanek in February 1942 to return to Skalat. At the time Pesach Sass was among the Polish POWs from the Lipowa 7 labor camp tasked with constructing Majdanek.