Metadata: Legacy of the Feldhorn family
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. E. Ringelbluma
- Postal address:
- ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- (+48 22) 827 92 21
- Web address:
- http://www.jhi.pl/
- Email:
- secretary@jhi.pl
- Reference number:
- PL 312/S/368
- Title:
- Legacy of the Feldhorn family
- Title (official language):
- Spuścizna rodziny Feldhorn
- Creator/accumulator:
- Feldhorn family
- Date(s):
- 1896/1975
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- English
- Ukrainian
- Latin
- Esperanto
- Extent:
- 0.5 linear metre (2 boxes; 19 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises documents from the period 1896-1975 belonging to members of the Feldhorn family.
Literary works:
- published volumes of poems by Juliusz Feldhorn: unit 1;
- materials used by Juliusz Feldhorn in his literary work: units 2-3;
- poems by Stella Landy-Feldhornowa: unit 4;
- reminiscences of Maria Krawczyk (photographs, press clippings, copies of letters): unit 5.
Personal documents of:
- Mojżesz-Michała Feldhorn: unit 6;
- Juliusz Feldhorn: unit 7;
- Stella-Bronisława Feldhorn, née Landy (first married surname Landau): unit 8;
- Maria Krawczyk, née Feldhorn: unit 9;
- Cecylia Schauer, née Feldhorn (from 1947, Szarzyńska) (including forged occupation-era documents under the name Dorota Szpyrka): units 10-13;
- Marceli Schauer (husband of Cecylia Schauer): unit 14;
- Maurycy Herman (brother of Lea Feldhorn): unit 15.
Correspondence:
- Stella Feldhorn (re. translations): unit 16;
- Stella’s parents, Ludwik Landy and Tola Landy (transcripts of letters sent from the Tarnów ghetto): unit 17;
- fragmentary correspondence: unit 18.
Various (including Mojżesz-Michał Feldhorn’s 1939 pocket diary with his notes on his family members between September and November 1939): unit 19.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH) in May 1999 by Maria Krawczyk, née Feldhorn, daughter of Juliusz Feldhorn.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Mojżesz-Michał Feldhorn and his wife Lea, née Herman, had three children, Juliusz, Rudolf and Cecylia. Born 1901, Juliusz became known as a poet and prose writer, translator, and teacher with the Hebrew Gymnasium (high school) in Krakow. In 1933 he married Stella-Bronisława Landau (née Landy), a philologist of English and sworn translator; their daughter, Maria, was born the next year. With the German invasion of Poland in 1939 the family moved to Lwów. After the German-Soviet war broke out in June 1941 the family hid in the vicinity of Krakow under the false name of Krawczyk. In August 1943, Juliusz and Stella were arrested and executed by a firing squad in Wieliczka. Maria saved her life owing to her relatives, Elfryda Trammer and her daughter Augusta (later married as Szemelowska). In August 1944 she was sent to an orphanage run by Catholic nuns in Czersk. After the war she was adopted by her relatives Henryk and Irena Trammer. She changed her surname to Krawczyk and now lives in Warsaw. Juliusz Feldhorn’s parents and those of his wife Stella were killed during the war, as were his brother Rudolf and his family. Juliusz’s sister, Cecylia Schauer, hid in Lwów under the name Dorota Szpyrka. She repatriated to Poland in 1945 and assumed the surname Szarzyńska in 1947. She died in an accident in 1975.
- Access points: locations:
- Tarnów
- Finding aids:
-
A catalogue in Polish was compiled in 2009 and is accessible online.
Also see:
Aleksander B. Skotnicki, Juliusz Feldhorn. Poeta, pisarz, tłumacz, wybitny polonista Gimnazjum Hebrajskiego w Krakowie, Kraków 2011, pp. 168
- Yerusha Network member:
- Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Author of the description:
- Monika Taras; Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. E. Ringelbluma; 2015
