us-005578-irn538570
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1941-12-31
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identifier: irn538570
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biographical history: Wanda Mosewicki Glass was born in Warsaw in 1912 to Helena and Ekusiel Mosewicki. In 1934, she married Marian (later Martin) Glass, the son of Jakob and Stephanie Glass. Jakob was a wealthy banker, and Marian graduated from Warsaw law school with the intent of practicing law. However, Polish legislation enacted at the time barred him from practicing, and he found work as a legal assistant. Marian and Wanda's son Andrzej was born in 1935. The family had substantial securities and money invested in several overseas banks, but in March 1939 the Polish government demanded that Polish citizens recall all their liquid assets from abroad. The Glasses followed this directive, so that when the war broke out they had no foreign deposits to draw upon. After the German invasion of Poland, Marian sent Wanda and Andrzej along with other relatives, out of Warsaw to a hotel in the nearby town of Srodborow. A few days later, a cousin of Marian came to the hotel and recommended that everyone return to Warsaw to decide what next to do. On September 7, Marian went to help dig trenches for the army and met a Polish taxi driver who agreed to take both of their families east. Marian, Wanda, Andrzej, Helena and Wanda's brother Anatol boarded the taxi and headed east with very few possessions. Marian's parents left separately, and his sister and her husband went to Lvov. The taxi went as far as Pinsk before it ran out of gas. The family then hired villagers to take them east by horse and cart. Wanda, Andrzej and Helena stopped in Sarny near the border, and Marian and Anatol continued on to Vilna to get winter clothing from relatives who owned a textile mill. They learned that Vilna had become part of independent Lithuania and sought to bring the rest of the family there. For the next year the family lived in Vilna supported by relatives, bartering, and community soup kitchens. After the Soviet take-over of Lithuania in June 1940, the family again decided to flee. After being rejected for It…
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1941-01-01
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/701
has record set type: Item
title: Glass family photograph
scope and content: Photographic print: black and white image of Wanda, Marian and Andrzej Glass seated together indoors with bookshelf and window behind them; handwritten inscription on verso; taken in New York after their journey from Poland; dated May 5, 1941; in Polish
has or had holder: us-005578