Jakob Widawski photographs

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Jakob Widawski photographs 

folder 1 

Two photographs: depicting Jakob Widawski (donor’s father) born on May 21, 1921 in Wieruszow, 55 miles WNW from Czestochowa, together with seven other survivors of the town in which 2,400 Jews lived before the war. Jakob Widawski survived the forced labor camp near Poznan, the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his prisoner number was 141687, and a death march to Gleiwitz, Langebilau camps from which he managed to escape.