Metadata: Private Papers of A Poznanski
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Imperial War Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Imperial War Museum
- Postal address:
- Lambeth RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomSE1 6HZ
- Email:
- Email: contact@iwm.org.uk
- Reference number:
- Documents.8182
- Title:
- Private Papers of A Poznanski
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of A Poznanski
- Creator/accumulator:
- Poznanski, Arthur
- Date(s):
- 1939/1945
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Photocopy of a good memoir (17pp ts) describing aspects of his childhood in provincial Poland in the 1930s, the German invasion of September 1939 and the consequent loss of the family's home and possessions to `ethnic Germans', the persecution and deportation of Jews in Wielun (where his family lived), move to Piotrkow and employment in a German-run glass factory there, the deportation of his parents, and his survival in the Piotrkow ghetto (he and his brother subsequently survived Buchenwald and other camps to emigrate to England just after the war).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Poznanski, A
- Access, restrictions:
- Visit IWM website for Research Room access provisions see https://www.iwm.org.uk/research/research-facilities
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030008011
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
