Szlama Kleiner papers

Identifier
irn523643
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2000.306
Dates
1 Jan 1919 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
  • English
  • German
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

3

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Szloma Kleiner was born on September 15, 1918, in lazy, Poland. His father, Hersz-Lejb Kleiner, was a tailor, and his mother, Mala Dresner Kleiner, took care of the children. Szloma had four siblings: Abram-Zelig (1914-1943), Mendel Ajzik (1916-1943), Cesia, (1923-ca.1943), and Doba (b.1926). Hersz-Lejb and Mala Kleiner, were deported to Auschwitz on August 26, 1943, and were killed on arrival. In November 1940, the Germans arrested Szloma and sent him to a series of camps including Flossenbürg, Borki Wielki, Gröditz, and a sub-camp of Gross Rosen. On May 8, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Szloma Kleiner, and he immediately returned to his hometown of lazy and Sosnowiec, Poland, to search for his family. When he realized that everyone but his sister, Doba, perished, he left Poland for Bergen-Belsen DP camp On August 31, 1947, he immigrated to Sweden, and two years later, on May 29, 1949, he married Nacha Weisfuss. Nacha Weisfuss Kleiner was born on May 6, 1918, in Sosnowiec. In 1941 she was deported to Flossing labor camp and later transferred to Peterswaldau labor camp. She was liberated on May 8, 1945, by the Soviet Army.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Szlama Kleiner

The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Szlama Kleiner in 2000.

Scope and Content

The papers consist of photographs and six documents relating to the Kleiner and Wajsfus families before World War II, during the war in the ghettos in Łazy and Sosnowiec, Poland, in concentration camps including the Auschwitz sub-camp Fürstengrube Myslowice, and after the war in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp.

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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.