us-005578-irn510932
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/701
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
title: Felicia Bryn collection
identifier: irn510932
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn510932/alternateIDs/1
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn510932/acquisitions/1
record resource extent: folder 1
scope and content: The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Felicia Bryn (born Felicja Braun) who survived the war as a hidden child. Included are photographs depicting Felicia, her father Dawid Braun, her younger brother Jurek Braun, and Kazimierz and Leokadia Sroka, whom hid her during the Holocaust; a postcard written while in the Warsaw ghetto from her aunt Frajdla Frania Gliksmanher to Frania’s brother in Nusyn Gliksman in the United States; and two identification documents issued to Nusyn Gliksman when he lived in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1934-1935.
type: RecordSet
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-ghettos/1106
has or had holder: us-005578
has record set type: Item
has or had some members with language: deu
date: 1934-circa 1946
biographical history: Felicia Bryn (born Felicja Braun, 1936 or 1937-2014) was born on 22 August 1936 or 1937 in Warsaw Poland to Dawid Braun and Bluma Gliksman Braun. Dawid (b. 1914) worked as a physician and was originally from Kalisz, Poland where his grandfather was a well-known rabbi. Bluma (1915-1941) was born in Wielun, Poland and was a daughter of Rabbi Fajwel Gliksman, an Agudah Israel activist. Felicia had one younger brother, Jurek (Jakub, b. 1939). After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 the family fled Warsaw to Kalisz to join members of Dawid’s family. On 20 November 1939, in order to make room for Baltic Volksdeutsche, the Germans evicted Jewish families and deported them to the Lublin district of the General Government. Following the deportation, several thousand additional Jews managed to escape from Kalisz and dispersed over many parts of Poland; the Brauns were among nearly 7,000 who found refuge in the Warsaw ghetto. Bluma's sister, Frajdla Frania Gliksman joined them there. On 22 December 1941 Bluma died of typhus and was buried in at the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street. Dawid married his sister-in-law, Frania, soon after Bluma's death but lived on false papers on the Aryan side of Warsaw. Posing as Zygmunt Bakowski, he traded in the black market to bring extra food to his starving family in the ghetto. Dawid obtained false papers for Felicia under the name of Felicja Garbarczyk. In the summer of 1942, Frania dressed Felicia in a new, light blue dress and told her that she was going to her grandmother. Felicia questioned this, knowing that her maternal grandmother lived in Grzęska, a large farm near Wielun. Frania told her to be an actress like Shirley Temple and lie about her real identity. Felicia left the Warsaw ghetto via the courthouse on Leszno Street, while a bribed guard looked the other way. She followed her aunt's instructions and arrived in a strange apartment led by a strange man. Her father arrived in the evening, and the next day he took…