S.L. Shneiderman papers
Extent and Medium
folders
4
Creator(s)
- S. L. Shneiderman
Biographical History
S.L. Shneiderman (1906-1996), was born Samuel Loeb Sznajderman in Kazimierz, Poland, the son of Abraham and Chana (nee Mandelbaum) Sznajderman. He studied at Warsaw University, and following that, worked as a journalist, serving as Paris correspondent for a number of Jewish daily newspapers in Poland, and covering the Spanish Civil War. In 1933 he married Eileen (Hala) Szymin (1908- ), and in 1940 he and Eileen immigrated to the United States with their young daughter, Helen. Among his books published was "Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary" by Mary Berg, which he edited and translated, and when published in 1944, was one of the earliest published eyewitness accounts of life in the ghetto. He also edited "My Story," by Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, the sister of New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, which describes Ms. Gluck's experiences in German-occupied Budapest during World War II, where she had been trapped with her Hungarian Jewish husband. Shneiderman became a United States citizen in 1949, and worked as a journalist in New York, writing for, among other publications, the Jewish Daily Forward, as well as Yiddish newspapers around the world. He moved to Ramat Aviv, Israel in 1994, where he died on 8 October 1996. [Source: http://www.lib.umd.edu/slses/donors/sl_bio].
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ben Shneiderman
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Ben Shneiderman.
Scope and Content
Contains writings and research notes of S.L. Shneiderman (Samuel Lajb Shneiderman) for a book with the working title "Jews in Communist Poland." The writings and notes regard Jews in the Soviet Union who wanted to serve in the Polish Army of General Władysław Anders (often referred to as Anders' Army) and the reasons why they were denied. Also includes a typed manuscript sent to Shneiderman by Dr. Salomon Leder in Israel in the late 1950s titled "Memoirs of a Young Political Prisoner in the USSR" (in Polish, 278 pages).
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged as four folders. Folder 1. Chapter 1; Folder 2. Chapter IV; Folder 3. Chapter V; Folder 4. Leder, Salomon: "Memoirs of a Young Political Prisoner in the USSR" manuscript The arrangement of the documents reflects the order they were received by the USHMM.
People
- Shnayderman, Sh. L. (Shemuʼel-Leyb), 1906-1996.
Corporate Bodies
- Anders Army
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Polish resistance--Poland.
Genre
- Document
- Manuscripts.