us-005578-irn555543
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scope and content: Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the Wachs and Liebesmann families. Salomea Lusia Liebesmann Wachs, donor’s mother, b. 1909 had three brothers: Benjamin and Mendel, engineers who survived in France and Abraham, physician, who was saved by a German officer and his wife in Stanislawow.; Lusia Wachs and her husband Artur Wachs, b. 1901, an engineer, lived in Stryj and worked for Polish Railways; Giora Jerzyk was born on July 10, 1937. Dr. Włodzimierz Łużecki, Artur’s boss arranged for him baptismal certificate for the name: Hieronim Kozdrowicz. False ID’s were issued for the whole family including Feiga Liebesman, Lusia’s mother. Jerzyk, his mother and grandmother moved to Chelm and Artur lived in Sanok. In 1945 Wachs family helped Dr. Łużecki leave USSR for Poland. Photographs; depicting Greifinger family, Wachs family and Liebesmann family in Poland, France, and Israel; Maya Greifinger Amir was born in 1936 in Krakow; her mother, Roza Hiltch Greifinger was murdered in Sobibor in August 1942; Maya and her father Leib Leon managed to survive in hiding in Boryslaw. Both Maya and Giora immigrated to Israel in 1957.
identifier: irn555543
biographical history: Giora Amir was born on July 10, 1937 in Lvov, Poland as Jerzy Wachs, son of Artur Daniel Wachs (b. October 10, 1901 in Żółkiew) and Salomea Lusia Liebesmann Wachs (b. 1909 in Skole). Salomea had three brothers: Benjamin and Mendel, engineers who survived in France and Abraham, physician, who was saved by a German officer and his wife in Stanislawow Artur Wachs graduated from the Lvov Polytechnic as a mechanical engineer. He worked as chief engineer at Polish Railways (PKP) in Stryj. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the four hundred employees of the Railway Depot searched among themselves and found one, whose personal data fit the family of Artur Wachs. This way Artur Daniel Wachs became Hieronim Kozdrowicz; Salomea Liebesmann Wachs became Maria Kozdrowicz and their son became Jerzy Kozdrowicz. Frederika Fanny Tennenbaum Wachs, Artur’s mother became Kornelia Kuźmakowska, due to the enormous help of Dr. Włodzimierz Łużecki, a lawyer and a well-known Ukrainian leader. The family split: Lusia, her mother and her son settled in Chełm near Lublin, where Lusia or Maria Kozdrowicz worked in a German military co-op. Artur Hieronim Kozdrowicz went to Czortków, where he worked as a bookkeeper. In July 1944 the Soviet Army liberated the area and in July 1945 the whole Wachs Kozdrowicz family including Fanny Wachs and Dr. Włodzimierz Łużecki, moved to Gliwice, Silesia in western Poland. Jerzy Kozdrowicz graduated from high school and started his engineering studies at the Silesia Polytechnic (previously the Polytechnic Institute of Lvov transferred to Gliwice after the war). In 1957 both families immigrated to Israel. Jerzy and Julia (Maya) married in 1959. Jerzy graduated from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and began his 14-year long military service in the Israeli Navy. Maya graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a degree in biology. Jerzy changed his name to Giora Amir as required at the time by the Israeli Army. He attended Naval Ar…
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title: Maya and Giora Amir collection
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