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Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworksi-Pratt) Papers, 1939 -- 1966

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Title: Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworksi-Pratt) Papers, 1939 -- 1966

Predominant Dates:1939 --1966

ID: RG-01.04/RG-01.04

Creator: Anna Przeworski-Pratt, the former prisoner of ghettos and concentration camps, lawyer (1930s -- 19780s)

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Languages: Polish [pol], English [eng]

Abstract

Anna Przeworski Pratt Papers is a collection of reflective testimonies analyzing personal wartime and postwar discourse.

This Collections also contains personal documents and photographs

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Estera Epstein  was born in Czestochowa, Poland. She received jurisprudence education in University of Warsaw.  She survived German ghettos and concentration camps. After the war, employed by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Germany, she rendered legal services to the Committee and to the alleged Jewish collaborators. The Jewish collaborators were under the investigation of the Law Department of this Central Committee. Anna Przeworska Prattt maintained legal defense on their behalf in the Jewish Courts of Honor in postwar Germany.

Biographical Note

Anna Przeworska Pratt was born in Czestochowa, Poland. She received jurisprudence education in University of Warsaw.  She survived German ghettos and concentration camps. After the war, employed by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Germany, she rendered legal services to the Committee and to the alleged Jewish collaborators. The Jewish collaborators were under the investigation of the Law Department of this Central Committee. Anna Przeworska Prattt maintained legal defense on their behalf in the Jewish Courts of Honor in postwar Germany.

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-01.04.01, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt), testimony, a letter to her Polish mentorAdd to your cart.View associated digital content.
Ester Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt) narrated a personal discourse in the form of the letter to her prewar Polish mentor in jurisprudence
Subject/Index Terms:
Anna Przeworski - Pratt, former prisoner of German ghettos and concentration camp, Polish attorney
Anna Przeworski - Pratt, personal discourse and recollections, 1930s -- 1960s
Personal memoirs and recollections
Interwar Poland
Interwar Poland, personal discourse and reflections, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Czestochowa (Poland: Kielce province: county), population, Second General Census, 1931
First day of the German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939
German invasion of Poland, September 1939
German invasion of Poland, personal recollections and reflections, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworski)
Departments of Jewish Councils in the ghettos
Activities of Jewish Councils (Judenraete) Poland, 1939 -- 1945
Jewish Councils (Judenrate) deceptions
Jewish councils--chairmen
Members of Jewish Council (Judenrat)
Judenraete (Jewish councils)
Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Czestochowa ghetto
Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Czestochowa ghetto, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Jewish administration in Czestochowa ghetto, corruption and collaboration
Jewish administration in Czestochowa ghetto corruption and collaboration Estera Epstein (Przeworska)
Leon Kpinski, Chairman of the Jewish Council (Judenrat) in Czestochowa ghetto
Anticipation of actions (Aktion) in the ghettos
Anticipation of actions (Aktion) in the Czestochowa ghetto
Anticipation of actions (Aktion) in the Czestochowa ghetto, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Roundups and Actions in the ghettos
Action (Aktion) in the Czestochowa ghetto, September 22, 1942
Action (Aktion) in the Czestochowa ghetto, September 22, 1942 Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Being rescued from Actions (Aktion) in the ghettos
Being rescued from Action (Aktion) in the Czestochowa ghetto
Being rescued from Action (Aktion) in Czestochowa ghetto, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
The role of protection, connections and money in the survival in the Holocaust
The role of connections, personal relations and friends in precarious situations
The role of connections, personal relations and friends in precarious situations, Estera Epstein
Corruption in the ghettos, 1940 -- 1945
Extermination of Jewish intelligentsia--Czestochowa (Poland)
Mass killing of Jewish and Polish intelligentsia in German-occupied Poland, 1939 -- 1945
Mass killing of Jewish intelligentsia in Czestochowa, March 1943
Mass killing of Jewish intelligentsia in Czestochowa, March 1943, Esstera Epstein
Means of survival, not in ghettos or concentration camps
Personal instincts and and will for survival in the ghettos
Personal instincts and will for survival in Czestochowa ghetto Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt
Hasag Pelcery (Czestochowa, Poland: Concentration Camp)
Hasag Pelcery (Czestochowa, Poland: Concentration Camp), Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Narratives in Polish language
Documents in Polish language
Action (Aktion) in the Czestochowa ghetto, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Attempts to escape from forced marches, prisoner female, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Being rescued from imminent danger, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Being rescued from imminent danger, wartime
Burgau (Germany: Concentration Camp)
Burgau (Germany: Concentration Camp), Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt), memoirs
Captain (Hauptman) Degenhardt, administrator of the Czestochowa ghetto
Captain (Hauptman) Degenhardt, administrator of the Czestochowa ghetto, Estera Epstein
Escape from forced marches, wartime
Evacuation routes, wartime, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Evacuation of Hasag-Pelcery concentration camp, 1945
Fairness Honor Integrity Loyalty, human qualities in existential realities
Fate of relatives and loved ones
Fate of relatives and loved ones, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Fear, self preservation, egoism, betrayal in existential realities, memoir of Estera Epstein
Forced marches, prisoner female, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt), memoirs
Forced marches, prisoner female, wartime
Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
Help and comradeship between prisoners of Nazi-German concentration camps
Jewish Cemetery in Czestochowa, mass killing site, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Prisoner functionaries
Prisoners-functionaries, female
Prisoners of Nazi-German concentration camps, antisemitism
Ravensbrueck (Germany: Concentration Camp)
Creators:
Anna Przeworski-Pratt, the former prisoner of ghettos and concentration camps, lawyer (1930s -- 19780s)
Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworski Pratt) Polish-Jewish lawyer the former prisoner of camps and ghettoi