us-005578-irn714643
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Shlomo Adler (born Stanislaw Salek Adler) was born on June 16, 1930 in Bolechow, Poland (now Bolekhiv, Ukraine) to Abraham Dolek Adler and Sara Adler. Dolek owned a leather factory and Sara was a WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization) activist and took care of the household. Salek's older sister, Miriam (Musia, b. 1924) was born in 1924. In September 1939, after the Soviet annexation of Eastern Poland, they nationalized all private businesses, including Dolek's leather factory, but he was chosen to administer many of the leather workshops in Bolechow. On June 22, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and on July 2, 1941 they reached Bolechow. In the spring of 1942, Dolek was arrested and accused of black market activities. Sara was told to pay a bribe, but after she managed to collect half of the sum, she was denounced for trying to bribe an official and also arrested. A few days later she was led to the train station, and Salek never saw either of his parents again. In June 1942, 2,500 Bolechow Jews were deported to the Belzec death camp. Salek managed to avoid deportation by hiding in a storage room. The Germans then established a Jewish Quarter in town only for Jews with proper work permits. Salek and his cousin Jozek Adler remained in Bolechow working in a wooden barrel factory and Musia worked in a recycling plant. In March 1943 the Germans conducted another deportation Aktion. During this Aktion, Musia, who was 19 years old, was shot and killed along with her cousin Pepcia (Pepka) Diamand, Pepcia's mother, and Jozek's mother. In the beginning of July 1943 Salek heard shooting and fled with his cousin Jozek. They hid for a few days in the nearby marshes and in other locations. Salek, who was 13 years old, was determined to leave and forced his cousin Jozek to flee with him. While escaping they met Mr. Raduchowski who previously promised to prepare a hiding place for one person. Seeing both boys he decided to take them in. Mr. Raduchowski and his wi…
date: circa 1937-1947
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
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has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 4
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had some members with language: deu
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn714643
record resource extent: folders oversize folder 2 1
record resource structure: The Shlomo Adler papers are arranged as 2 folders and an oversize folder: Folder 1: Documents, 1937-1945 Folder 2 and OS 1: Photographs, circa 1920-1947
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The Shlomo Adler papers include documents and photographs relating to Shlomo Adler's family in Bolechow, Poland (now Bolekhiv, Ukraine) before, during, and after World War II. Photographs include pre-war images of Shlomo, his parents Dolek and Sara, and his sister Musia in Poland and at the Tarbut school in Bolechow, wartime photographs depict the Bolechow ghetto, and post-war images depict Zionist youth groups such as Gordonyah (Gordonia) in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and Noàr ha-Tsiyoni (Hanoar Hatzioní). Also pictured in pre-war photographs are Salim, Pepcia, and Alta Diamand and Jozik Adler. Documents include a promissory note for 250 zloty and a non-payment notice, a certificate stating that Wasyl Hoszowski was employed in a leather factory in Bolechow, and a certificate for immigration to Palestine issued to Shlomo Adler in September 1947. The collection also includes a pre-war negative of Shlomo Adler's mother in Bolechow.
title: Shlomo Adler papers