Chana Batista papers

Identifier
irn508953
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.197.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Chana was born in 1938 in Czestochowa and her mother tried to find a hiding place for her, without success. Chana was picked up in the street by a Polish man and saved by the Zielonka family. Guta Rozen was executed with hospital patients in the fall 1944 and her husband Gecel died during the death march from Buchenwald in April 1945; Czestochowa, Poland; circa 1935.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Chana Batista

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Chana Batista.

Scope and Content

Consists of a registration certificate; issued in Czestochowa, Poland, on 14 January 1944, attesting to the fact that Eugenia Koziarska (in reality Sara Rozen; now: Chana Batista) was a Catholic and resided with Henryk and Gertruda Zielonka and a copy photograph bearing the image of Gecel Rozyn (or Rozen), the donor’s father, who was murdered in the Buchenwald, Germany, concentration camp in 1945.

People

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.