us-005578-irn708312-irn707326
title: Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
conditions of use: Copyright Holder: Rachel M. Goldfarb
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biographical history: Rachel Mutterperl Goldfarb was born to Beryl and Dina Mutterperl on December 2, 1930 in Dokszyce, Poland (present day: Dokšycy, Belarus). Rachel’s brother, Shlomo Mutterperl, was three years younger. Dokszyce was three miles from the Soviet Union border and had a population of around 5,000; half of the inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl Mutterperl (d. 1937) was a businessman who bought cattle and farm products for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border garrison. Dina owned a thriving fabric store. The Mutterperls lived in the center of town. Their businesses were attached to the house and fronted the street, and they had a large warehouse in the back. On September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland, and Soviet troops occupied Dokszyce. Life for the Mutterperls changed drastically when the Soviet authorities nationalized the family businesses and banned religious schools. Rachel and other Jewish children had to attend Soviet public schools. Beryl became ill and died in 1937 after delivering products to Germany. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, German troops over ran Dokszyce and the town came under Nazi rule. In July 1941, German authorities required the Mutterperls and other Jewish families to wear yellow badges on the front and back of their garments to identity them as Jews, and designated a small section of Dokszyce near the synagogue as the Jewish ghetto. It was separated from the rest of the town by walls and barbed wire. German authorities forced several families to live in a single room; food quickly became scarce. When German SS and police began mass killings of the Jews in Dokszyce in 1942, Rachel and her family went into hiding, concealing themselves in a double wall between the back of the family home and their former business warehouse. They stayed in their hiding place for over a week before supplies ran out. One night just before the final liquidation, Dina, Rachel, and Shlomo were able to escape…
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record resource structure: The Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection is arranged into five series. Series 1: Biographical materials, 1945-1994 Series 2: Correspondence, 2005 Series 3: Manuscripts, 2004-2009, undated Series 4: Printed materials, 1999-2005 Series 5: Photographs, 1919-1995
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scope and content: The Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection includes biographical material, correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, and photographs documenting the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb and their families in Dokszyce, Poland (now Dokšycy, Belarus); Radom, Poland; and Santa Cesarea and Bari, Italy. Biographical material includes identification and naturalization documents for Rachel and Dina Mutterperl and Red Cross documents relating to the fate of Shlomo Mutterperl. Manuscript and printed materials include a Hebrew transcript of an oral history interview with Dina Mutterperl; correspondence and transcripts of speeches given at the commemoration of the 60th year of the liberation of the Wiesengrund concentration camp; newspaper clippings and printouts of website pages; and two undergraduate college papers that feature the experiences of Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb, written by Aimee Povich, entitled “Ethics and the Holocaust.” Photographs include pre-war photographs of the Mutterperl family and friends in Dokszyce, Poland (present day: Dokšycy, Belarus) and of the Goldfarb family in Radom, Poland. Photographs also depict an Israeli soldier from Dokszyce, whom the Mutterperls met after crossing the Alps, July 1945; Rachel Mutterperl and friends at the Santa Cesarea displaced persons camp in Italy, 1945-1947; and family friend Berel Rotstein in the barracks of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and at the Santa Cesarea displaced persons camp.
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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