us-005578-irn77367
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scope and content: Consists of copyprints of photographs, copies of postwar and wartime correspondence, original and copies of wartime personal documents, and typed family histories, related to the Holocaust experiences of Pessa Fogelman (Pessia Fogielman, Pessy Fogielman, now Pola Spitzer). In 1943, Pola was secretly taken by Natalia Pisula, a Polish Catholic woman, from the ghetto in Radomsko. Pola later received false papers under the name"Pelagia Pisul" and was sent to Germany as a forced laborer at a munitions factory in Güstrow. Includes her false papers, essays written about Pola Spitzer's experiences, her own testimony, and documents related to Natalia Pisula being designated"Righteous Among the Nations"
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record resource extent: folders 2
title: Pola Spitzer collection
has or had holder: us-005578
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn77367/acquisitions/1
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has or had some members with language: pol
has or had some members with language: eng
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
identifier: irn77367
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1940-01-01
biographical history: Pola Spitzer (born Pola Fogelman) was born on November 4, 1929, in Radomsko, Poland, to Hersh Fogelman and Sara Borzykowski. Her father worked as a master tailor and owned a large workshop. A sister, Genia (later Jean Bardach), was born September 27, 1927, and a brother, Abraham Joseph, was born in 1932. When Germans invaded Poland in September of 1939, the Fogelmans were sent to the Radomsko ghetto, where they lived in deplorable conditions in a one-room apartment with ten occupants. Pola continued school in the ghetto. In 1942, the Germans rounded up Sara and the three children to take them to the deportation site, but were released after Hersh bribed one of the Germans they were released. They then returned to the ghetto and hid in an attic. However during a subsequent round-up in October 1942, Pola's mother, Sara, was captured and deported to Treblinka. A Polish-Catholic woman named Natalia Pisula came into the ghetto and smuggled out a fifteen-year-old girl named Halina, a close friend of Genia's. Halina convinced Natalia to return two more times, to rescue first Genia, and then Pola. The girls lived with Natalia in her small apartment in Czestochowa until living in the city became too dangerous. In the winter of 1943, Natalia's father brought Pola to their farmhouse in Borowe, a small village annexed into Germany. After soldiers arrived at the farmhouse to interrogate the family, a plan was devised to send Halina, Genia, and Pola to Germany to work as volunteer laborers. Natalia obtained false papers for the girls. Genia left first and found work at an inn, and then her employers sent for Pola to work there as well. Pola later left the inn and worked as a maid for a couple with five children. In the fall of 1944, Pola and Genia were sent as Polish Catholics to a munitions factory attached to the Primerwald labor camp. The sisters lived in barracks with other Polish and Russian girls, living and working together in harsh conditions until their liberation by the…
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