Ellen W. Echeverria papers

Identifier
irn500983
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0950
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500983

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Ellen W. Echeverria

Biographical History

Elke Plech (later Elke Bozena, now Dr. Ellen Echeverria) was born in April 1942 to Maria Plech who was living in the ghetto in Lubartów, Poland. Maria left the baby with Stanislaw and Janina Wysocki before fleeing the ghetto and assuming a Polish identity. She was subsequently sent to Germany as a Polish forced laborer. Maria survived World War II and when she returned to Poland in 1946, she immediately sought to regain custody of her daughter. The Wysocki family refused, and the matter went to court. Elke eventually was reunited to Maria. The two subsequently left Poland for Germany. They settled for a time in Lüneburg, Germany, where Maria married Mieczyslaw Watnicki, a Jewish survivor who had been imprisoned in Auschwitz as a Pole. The family later immigrated to the United States.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Dr. Ellen Echeverria in 1995.

Scope and Content

The papers consist of letters from Auschwitz and other correspondence pertaining to post-World War II claims.

People

  • Ellen W. Echeverria

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Concentration camp inmates' writings--Poland.
  • Restitution and indemnification claims (1933-)
  • Hidden children (Holocaust)--Poland.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations.

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.

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