us-005578-irn724355-irn737026
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
conditions of use: No restrictions on use Copyright Holder: Ms. Laura Cohen
date: after 1938
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had subject: 701
has or had subject: 843
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn737026
is or was included in: us-005578-irn724355
record resource extent: folders 6
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Consists of postwar letters between the donor's mother, Helen Degen Cohen (formerly Halina Degenfisz, b. 1934) and Maria Szumska, who rescued Helen by hiding her in her home in Lida, Belarus (formerly Lida, White Russia) when Helen was seven years old after she and her parents, Blima and Josef Degen (formerly Degenfisz), were incarcerated in the Lida ghetto. Also includes photographs, other documents, and a booklet inscribed with Hebrew and Polish that was likely used in the Zeilsheim DP Camp in West Germany after Helen reunited with her parents, and before they immigrated to the United States.
title: Helen Degen Cohen papers