Polish Righteous Among the Nations Jan Mlynarczyk

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Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper : Ink : Black, White ; Ht: 5,5 in. x W: 3,5 in.
Date
1941
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper : Ink : Black, White ; Ht: 5,5 in. x W: 3,5 in.
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1941
Physical Condition
Good
Language
Polish
Notes
Portrait, indoor. Man wearing a suit with a white shirt and a striped tie poses with his head slightly turned to his left shoulder Narrative: Jan Mlynarczyk was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations in 1990 for his rescue of a Jewish family in a small shtetl named Koszyce (Poland). The seven family members he saved were Tonia Lowenstein, Chana Minzberg, Dina Minzberg, Mania (Miriam) Lowenstein, Hadasa Kaminska Mandelbaum, Asher Mandelbaum and Dina Mandelbaum Spiegel. Mlynarczyk provided false Christian identity papers as well as hiding places for them. They are believed to be the only surviving Jews of their village.
Accession No.
2011X.235.01
Name Access
Minzberg, Morris
Places
Koszyce, Poland, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Less detail