Kleiner, Wagman and Schmer families papers

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Kleiner, Wagman and Schmer families papers 

box 1 

Collection of photographs and documents concerning the experiences of the Kleiner, Wagman, and Schmer families before the war in Boryslaw, Poland; during the German occupation, when Hela Kleiner and her baby son Marian were in the ghetto, and later when Hela asked Michasia Sulik to take her two-year-old son Marian. Hela remained in hiding with Tadzio Schmer (later Tadeusz Gorecki), who lost his wife and children. Includes writings by Tadzio in hiding; correspondence with Jona Kleiner and other family members and friends in the Soviet Union; and postwar correspondence and photographs, including photographs fromt he Righteous Among the Nations ceremony for Michasia Sulik in Yad Vashem.