us-005578-irn739800-irn46951
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Seweryn Leopold (later Arie) was born in 1930 in Krakow, Poland to Michal Gutman and Maria Gutman Norymberska. He and his mother escaped to Lvov but were later deported to a forced labor camp in the Ural Mountains. They reached southern USSR in late 1941, made their way to Teheran with the Anders Army, and finally arrived in Palestine in February 1943. Maria's first and second husbands, Michal Gutman and Michal Norymberski, both perished in the Holocaust. Arie married Tova Gutman. Anna Gutman Potok, her husband Markus Potok, and their son Edmund Potok were originally from Bedzin, but resided in Katowice, Poland before the war. In 1939 they escaped to Soviet occupied Lwow and were later deported to the Ural Mountain region. Markus worked as an engineer and Edmund attended school. After the German invasion of USSR the Potok family moved to Tashkent. In 1946 they were able to return to Poland where they lived till 1968. Markus Potok emigrated to Denmark and Edmund and his family emigrated to Sweden.
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had some members with language: Farsi
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had some members with language: eng
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identifier: irn46951
is or was included in: us-005578-irn739800
record resource extent: boxes 4
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scope and content: Correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the Gutman, Potok, Sercarz and Norymberski families from Bedzin, Poland.
title: Gutman, Potok, Sercarz and Norymberski families collection