Max Poznanski collection

Max Poznanski collection 

Max Poznanski was born on 8 May 1911, athough he was later assigned a birthdate in 1917 by Soviet authorities when he was issued identification papers following his liberation from Theresienstadt in 1945. Originally from Warsaw, he was interned in the Warsaw Ghetto from 1940-1942, and then imprisoned in a succession of concentration camps as a forced laborer, including Majdanek (July 1942-June 1943), Auschwitz (June 1943-January 1945), Krahwinkel (January through March 1945), and then Theresienstadt. After being treated in a Soviet-operated hospital in Theresienstadt following liberation, he moved to a displaced persons camp in Amberg, Germany, where he was treated in a sanatorium for tuberculosis from September 1945 until June 1946. He remained in Amberg until he immigrated to the United States in 1949, where he settled in the Washington, DC area. He suffered from chronic bronchitis, in addition to severe nervousness, as a result from his time in the camps working as a coal miner. 

Max Poznanski collection