Isidor Urbach family collection

Identifier: irn88648
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn88648

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Daniel Urbach, the son of Isidor Urbach.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a watercolor, correspondence, documents, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Isidor Urbach and his family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland.

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Watercolor by a Polish Jewish man of his hiding place under the stove
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607647
- English
- 1943
- overall: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 9.438 inches (23.973 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Watercolor painted by Isidor Urbach of his hiding place below the oven in the home where he lived with his wife Irena from 1942-1944 in Zalasocze, Poland. In September 1939, Nazi Germany occupied Poland. The family was imprisoned in Ostrow Lubelski and Stare Zalucze ghettos. In 1942, Irena found a one room house in Zalasocze where she fled with their five children. Isidor, who was Jewish, created a hiding place just for himself. Irena was Catholic and did not hide and they got false papers for the children and, at least part of the time, sent them to stay with Irena's mother. In mid-1942, I...
Urbach family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607940
- English
- 1910-1995
- folders oversize box 6 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Urbach family papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and a scrapbook documenting the family of Jewish dentist Isidor Urbach from Poznań, the family’s survival in ghettos and in hiding during World War II, and the two girls named Masza Zunszajn and Roza Zaltz the family hid during the war. Biographical materials include a birth certificate, vaccination record, identification documents, permits and passes, work documents, and a list of products the Urbachs offered at their soup kitchen in Włodawa following liberation. Correspondence includes prewar family post...

Isidor Urbach family collection

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Watercolor by a Polish Jewish man of his hiding place under the stove

Urbach family papers