us-005578-irn30238
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Moshe Moniek Sheps was born on January 6, 1923 in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland. He is the youngest of three children of Abraham Itzhak, born in 1887, who manufactured cigarettes and Chava Wolhandler Szeps, born in 1889, a wig maker. Moniek’s sisters: Fela, born on September 22, 1918 and Sabina Szewa, born in July 22, 1921 attended public school and belonged to “Gordonia”, a Zionist Socialist youth organization. Moniek attended “Heder”, religious school for boys and later “Yavne” Mizrachi Hebrew elementary school in Będzin. At age eleven he joined “Hashomer Hadati”, a Zionist religious youth movement and participated in meetings and summer camps organized by the Mizrachi movement. Later he attended the Furstenberg Gymnasium, a private, coeducational high school taught in Hebrew. In September 1939, soon after the German invasion, the Szeps family was forced to move to an area that later became a ghetto. Moniek worked for Dąbrowa Górnicza City Hall and had a work permit “Der Blaue Sonderberufsschein”, which protected him from deportations. The offices were located outside the ghetto, which enabled Moniek to purchase tobacco for his father’s cigarette workshop and bring additional food products for the family. Fela and Sabina Szewa worked in the Rosner military uniform workshops, but on February 7, 1942 both girls were deported to the Grünberg slave labor camp, a sub camp of Gross Rosen. There they worked for “Deutsche Wollwaren Manufaktur GmbH”, a textile factory, until April 1945, when the prisoners were forced on a “Death March” to Volary in Czechoslovakia. Fela Szeps, who attended the Warsaw University until 1939, together with her younger sister, Sabina Szewa, kept a diary in the slave labor camp. They wrote it on scraps of paper and held the pages in a cloth pouch. Fela died on May 8, 1945 in Volary. Her diary is in Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel. Moniek Szeps, who was 21 years old in 1942, took it upon himself to send food and clothing parcels to his older sisters. …
date: circa 1925-1946
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had subject: 904
has or had subject: 101
has or had subject: 701
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn30238
record resource extent: folder 1
record resource structure: The Moshe Sheps photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The Moshe Sheps photograph collection consists of photographs of members of"Hashomer Hadat" in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; the"Kibbutz Buchenwal" in Gersfeld, Germany and in Italy awaiting immigration to Palestine; four family photographs from Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; and three photographs of the Gorset family, Moshe Sheps' cousins.
title: Moshe Sheps photograph collection