Adam and Helen Gawara collection

Identifier
irn81148
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by the family of Adam and Helen Gawara.

Scope and Content

Collection of certificates, correspondence and photographs documenting the experiences of Holocaust survivors Adam Gawara and Helen Hercberg Gawara along with their friends and family in the years following their liberation. Primarily comprised of materials from the Loheide, Feldafing and Bergen Belsen displaced persons camps as well as correspondence regarding their applications for compensation of victims of National Socialism; dates 1945-1954; in German and English. Adam Gawara was persecuted as a Pole. He met Helen Hercberg while in the displaced persons camp, and they were married after he converted to Judaism. Oral history interviews with Adam and Helen Gawaral; conducted by Anita Hecht on March 4, 1998 in Madison, WI; in English

Genre

  • Collection
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