us-005578-irn521416-irn521417
biographical history: David Mielzynski (later David Mills) was born in 1910 in Schwersenz, Posen (Swarzędz, Poland). He lived in Berlin, Germany, with his wife Liesbeth Sieradzki, who was born in 1913. Liesbeth left Berlin for England expecting him to follow in two weeks. Instead he was trapped in Germany and survived for three years hidden in a toolshed on a field in Berlin-Lichterfelde, 2 miles from SS Headquarters. A non-Jewish man whose name in not known, supplied him with food, helping him to survive in hiding for three years. David was liberated by the Russians in May 1945. He emigrated to the United States in September 1946. He Americanized his name to Mills. His wife Liesbeth’s entire family from Poznan, Łódź, and Warsaw perished in the Holocaust. David, 78, passed away in 1988.
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn521416-irn521417/acquisitions/1
scope and content: The David Mielzynski papers include a Wehrmacht document excluding David Mielzynski from service, his identification card, a card identifying him as a victim of fascism, and three calendars he used while hiding in a toolshed during the Holocaust.
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title: David Mielzynski papers
identifier: irn521417
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1945-12-31
has or had some members with language: deu
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1939-01-01
record resource structure: The David Mielzynski papers are arranged as a single series: I. David Mielzynski papers, 1939-1945
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