Anna Lipszyc Papers, 1941-1946

Collection Overview

Title: Anna Lipszyc Papers, 1941-1946

Predominant Dates:1941 -- 1948

ID: RG-01.08/RG-01.08

Creator: Anna Lipszyc, survvior of the Holocaust, lived under false identity (1940s -- 1945)

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Languages: Polish [pol], German [ger], English [eng]

Abstract

This collection comprises Anna Lipszycs personal documents and artifacts as well as correspondences from Jurek (Georg) Gutkind, her prewar friend and present day serviceman of the Jüdische Ordnungsienst (Jewish Order Police) in Miedzyrzec-Podlaski, Lublin province, Poland.

It includes documents, photographs, and personal letters written to Anna Lipszyc (married name Anna Fischer) in Polish and German during the wartime. Anna Lipszyc was born on September 5, 1918 in Skierniewice, Poland. During the time of the German occupation of Skierniewice, Anna Lipszyc assumed a false Polish identity of Anna (Hanka) Wójcik. It is believed that her friend Jurek (Georg) Gutkind, who served in Jüdische Ordnungsienst (Jewish Order Police), organized and provided all the necessary documents enabling her to maintain false identity.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Biographical Note

Anna Lipszyc (married name Anna Fischer) in Polish and German during the wartime. Anna Lipszyc was born on September 5, 1918 in Skierniewice, Poland. During the time of the German occupation of Skierniewice, Anna Lipszyc assumed a false Polish identity of Anna (Hanka) Wójcik. It is believed that her friend Jurek (Georg) Gutkind, who served in Jüdische Ordnungsienst (Jewish Order Police), organized and provided all the necessary documents enabling her to maintain false identity

Box and Folder Listing

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-01.08.01, Temporary identification paper issued to Anna Wójcik by the Magistrate (City Hall) of Skierniewice

During the time of the German occupation of Skierniewice, Anna Lipszyc assumed a false Polish identity of Anna (Hanka) Wójcik. It is believed that her friend Jurek (Georg) Gutkind, who served in Jüdische Ordnungsienst (Jewish Order Police), organized and provided all the necessary documents enabling her to maintain false identity.

Subject/Index Terms:: Anna Lipszyc, false identity papers of Anna Wojcik; Acting under false identity, Jewish survivors; Anna Lipszyc, personal survival skills; City management of Skierniewice, Poland, wartime; Magistrat of Skierniewice under German occupation, wartime; Issuance of identification papers, local authority establishment, wartime; Obtaining document of false idenity, German-occupied Poland , 1939 -- 1945; Identification document issued to Anna Lipszyc under false name Anna Wojcik,Skierniewice, ca 1941; Anna Lipszyc (poses as Anna Wojcik), photographs, wartime; Anna Lipszyc (poses as Anna Wojcik), photograph attached to her paper issued by Skierniewice Magistr; False identity papers; False identity papers of Jews assumed false identity, German-occupied Poland; Rubric of false identity papers, profession, denomination, DOB, residence, parents, wartime; Anna Lipszyc posed as a Roman Catholic, dressmaker; Skierniewice (Poland); Skierniewice (Poland: Warsaw province), Second Census, 1931; Skierniewice (Poland: Warsaw province: county), Second Census, 1931; Documents in Polish language; Documents in German language

Creators:: Magistrat (City Hall), executive offices of Polish administration under German control, wartime (1939 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-01.08.02, Photocopy of a Worker’s Card (Arbeitskarte) issued to Anna Lipszyc under her false name, Anna Wójcik

Anna Lipszyc posed under false identity of Anna Wojcik, Roman Catholic, dressmaker. There were corresponding personal document issued to her under the name of Anna Wojcik by Polish and German administration in Skierniewice., as well as in Germany to where she volunteered for labor serivice to be safer as unknown Polish woman. This work card was issued in Stuttgart region in May 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Anna Lipszyc (poses as Anna Wojcik), photographs, wartime; Anna Lipszyc, false identity papers of Anna Wojcik; Volunteering for German labor service; Volunteering for German labor service under false identity, Anna Lipszyc (Wojcik), 1943; Documents issued by German employment agencies for foreign workers, wartime; Documents issued by Germany employment agencies for foreign workers, Anna Lipszyc (Wojcik), 1943; German employment agency in Stuttgart for foreign workers, wartime; German employment agency in Stuttgart, Anna Lipszyc (Wojcik); Anna Lipszyc, personal survival skills; Work cards for foreign workers in Germany, wartime; Work cards for foreign workers in Germany, Anna Lipszyc (Wojcik), 1943 -- 1945; Documents in German language

Creators:: German Labor Service (1933 -- 1945); German labor service employment agency in Stuttgart, wartime (1943); Foreign workers labor service in wartime Germany (1939 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-01.08.03, Photocopy of Anna Lipszyc’s provisional foreign refugee pass, issued by provisional German authorities, postwar, 1945, postwar, 1945

A refugee pass issued to Anna Lipszyc by provisional German authorities in postwar, 1945. Her photographs of Grman period is attached.

She is regarded as a stateless person. Lodz is indicated as a place of birth. Place of residence in Germany is marked Stuttgart.

Personal features are defined.

Subject/Index Terms:: Anna Lipszyc, personal survival skills; Postwar adjustment and adaptation, Anna Lipszyc; Anna Lipszyc, postwar identification documents, Germany; Anna Lipszyc, registered as a stateless person born in Lodz, Poland; Postwar Germany (1945); Postwar adjustment and adaptation; Anna Lipszyc (Wojcik), personal and group photographs; Anna Lipszyc (Wojcik) personal and group photographs in labor service under false identity, Germany; Anna Lipszyc, personal and group photographs in postwwar Germany, employed by the Allied offices; Stuttgart (Germany); Documents in German language

Creators:: Provisional German police and municipal authorities in Stuttgart (1945, postwar)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-01.08.04, Two photographs of Anna Lipszyc (Anna Wójcik)(left) with another woman, July 1945, Germany.

Anna Lipszyc and her acquaintance in postwar Germany, July 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Anna Lipszyc, personal and group photographs in postwwar Germany, employed by the Allied offices; Anna Lipszyc, personal survival skills; Employment under Allied Administration in postwar Germany, Anna Lipszyc, easy adjustment; Postwar adjustment and adaptation, Anna Lipszyc

Creators:: Anna Lipszyc, survvior of the Holocaust, lived under false identity (1940s -- 1945); Anna Lipszyc (Wojcik) and her circle of friends in wartime and postwar Germany (1943 -- 1948)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-01.08.05, A group photograph of five women, Anna Lipszyc (Wojcik) is first from the right. July 1945, Germany

Anna Lipszyc on her real identity employed by an allied office in postwar Germany on a group photograph with four other women, perhaps her acquaintances or co-workrers, July 1945, Germany

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-01.08.06, Certificate issued to Anna Lipszyc by the Office of Military Government (US) in Stuttgart, March 1946

Anna Lipszyc got soon employed by the US Military Goverment in Germany, Stuttgart district. She became a special investigator in public health matters for which the Military Government of American occupation zone in Germany was responislbe. It is a certificate issued to Anna Lipszyc by Robert H. Culver, First Lt., Public Health Team No. 4 of Stuttgarat district.

Issued on 26 March 1946

This document issued to anyone's concern

Subject/Index Terms:: Anna Lipszyc, personal survival skills; Anna Lipszyc, postwar identification documents, Germany; Employment under Allied Administration in postwar Germany, Anna Lipszyc, easy adjustment; Anna Lipszyc, employement with public health division of US Military Government in Germany, postwar; Anna Lipszyc, certification of employement in public health matters, Germany, US administration; American Military Government, Germany, US zone of occupation; US Military Government, Germany, American zone of occupation, employment certificates; Robert H. Culver, 1st Lt. Public Health Team, Stuttgart district, US Military government, Germany; Documents in English language

Creators:: Robert H. Culver, First Lt., Public Health Team, US Military Goverment, Germany (1946)