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