us-005578-irn42944
identifier: irn42944
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
title: Klapholc and Shoval families photograph collection
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biographical history: Gusti Shoval was born as Gitl Guta Klapholc on July 3, 1923 in Oświęcim, Poland to Chaim Jakub Klapholc (1890-1944) and Sabina Szajndl Rotenberg Klapholc (b. 1894 or 1900-1944). The family owned a delicatessen store in Oświęcim, which was well known in town and the vicinity for its selection of luxury goods. The store was located at the main square of town, Rynek Główny. Chaim Klapholc was a very religious man who started his day praying in the nearby synagogue, while his wife opened the store for business. The family lived at 2 Jagiellonska Street in Oświęcim. Chaim and Sabina had five children: Dawid Klapholc (b. 1920); Gitl Guta Klapholc (later Gusti Shoval, b. July 3, 1923); Arie Lejb Klapholc (b. 1925); Adela Ida Klapholc (b. 1927); and Henia Klapholc (b. December 1936). In addition, the family adopted Chaim’s nephew, Mordechai Hersh, after his father, Salomon Shlomo, died. The children attended Polish elementary schools. In the afternoons Gusti and Adela went to Beit Yaakov School to learn Jewish subjects and the boys attended a yeshiva. In September 1934 Gusti was sent to Krakow, Poland to attend a commerce school where her older brother Dawid attended the same school. Gusti and her brother lived with a distant relative in Krakow while attending school. In December 1936, Henia Klapholc was born and the family hired a nanny, Maria Molenda, to care for the baby. Maria had a daughter, Hanka Molenda, who was born in 1927, out of wedlock. On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland. Gusti was unable to return to school. Her parents sent Gusti and her two sisters to their paternal grandparents, Dawid and Chaja Klapholc in Bochnia, Poland. However, after a few weeks the girls returned home. The Germans burned down the Oświęcim synagogues and the anti-Jewish repressions started immediately. In April 1940 the Germans confiscated the luxury store owned by the Klapholc family and nominated a “treuhänder” a trustee (Herr Müller). The family continued to work in the store…
record resource extent: folder 1
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has or had holder: us-005578
scope and content: The Klapholc and Shoval families photograph collection consists of twenty-four family photographs depicting the Klapholc family from Oświęcim, Poland and of Henryk Heniek Wasserlauf from Kraków and after the war in Wrocław.
record resource structure: The Jacob Shoval photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
has or had some members with language: pol