Post-WWII Missing Relative Document Issued by Le Ministere des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre

Authors

Object ID

2019.2.235

Object Name

Letter, Form

Date

1-24-1948

Files

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Description

Document titled “ACTE DE DISPARITION,” date “24 JAN 198” stamped in purple in top right corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: This document, a response to an inquiry, states that a Jewish woman of Polish background, Pola Eckhauz, born in Vilna in 1901, a married seamstress living in Paris, France, had been interned at Drancy transit center in Paris on July 16, 1942, from which she was deported to Auschwitz on July 29, 1942. On this transport- the twelfth from Drancy- five people survived of the 1,001 deportees. Yad Vashem database confirms that Ms. Eckhauz was murdered in Auschwitz.

Dimensions

10 1/2 x 8 1/4"

Keywords

Pola Eckhauz, Drancy, Auschwitz

Subcollection

Post, Transit

Recommended Citation

"Post-WWII Missing Relative Document Issued by Le Ministere des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre" (1948). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2019.2.235.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1562

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