Pauline Kra collection

Identifier: irn95123
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn95123

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Pauline Kra.

Scope and Content

The Pauline Kra collection consists of two knit scarves, in addition to a manuscript collection of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Bartkowski and Skornicki families from Łódź, their confinement in the Tomaszów Mazowiecki ghetto, Pauline's hidden Jewish identity in a Warsaw convent, and the family’s relocation to Caracas after the war and eventual immigration to the United States.

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Red and green fringed knit scarf
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11702
- English
- overall: Height: 52.500 inches (133.35 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm)
- Updated 12 months ago
Scarf
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11703
- English
- overall: Height: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)
- Updated 12 months ago
Knitted triangular red scarf.
Pauline Kra papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn530846
- English
- folders 6
- Updated 12 months ago
The Pauline Kra papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Bartkowski and Skornicki families from Łódź, their confinement in the Tomaszów Mazowiecki ghetto, Pauline’s hidden Jewish identity in a Warsaw convent, and the family’s relocation to Caracas after the war and eventual immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include a Tomaszów Mazowiecki identification card for Natalia Skornicka’s mother Tauba Bartkowska, an American Foreign Service application for non‐immigrant visa for Natalia and Paulina Skornicka, and Polish, Venezuelan, and American...

Pauline Kra collection

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Red and green fringed knit scarf

Scarf

Pauline Kra papers