Maya Peretz collection

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Maya Peretz collection 

folder 1 

Photographs illustrating the pre-war lives of the Gerstman family and extended relatives in Stanislawow, Poland [present day Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine] and Kalusz, Poland [present-day Ukraine]. Also included are images of Maja Gerstman [donor] in hiding during the second world war with Katerina Diachenko in Ukraine as well as post-war images and identification documents of Maja in Poland and Israel, where she later immigrated. Images include pre and post war photographs of Maja’s mother Miriam Helfgot Gerstman, and father Marek Gerstman, as well as extended relatives who did not survive the Holocaust.