us-005578-irn515491
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Wallace A. Witkowski was born in 1928 in Kielce, Poland, to a Polish Catholic family. His father was a chemical engineer, and his mother was a teacher. The Germans occupied Kielce in 1939. Wallace witnessed pogroms against Jews in 1942. Wallace was active in the resistance, acting as a courier between partisan groups. In 1946, in liberated Poland, Wallace witnessed the Kielce pogrom. He emigrated to the United States in 1949.
has beginning date: 1943-01-01
has end date: 1946-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn515491
record resource extent: folder 1
record resource structure: Arrangement is in the order in which received
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The three photographs in the collection are studio portraits of Wallace Witkowski in 1945, Wallace Witkowski and his sister in 1946, and Wallace Witkowski's mother in 1943.
title: Wallace Witkowski photograph collection