This is my uncle, Wladyslaw Lewin. It’s a studio portrait, taken in Warsaw in the 1930s.
He was the son of my maternal grandfather’s brother Marym Lewin and his wife Bela. Wladyslaw was a doctor. He survived the Holocaust in the Gulag. He died in America.
The Centropa archive has been acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
USHMM will soon offer a Special Collections page for Centropa.
Academics please note: USHMM can provide you with original language word-for-word transcripts and high resolution photographs. All publications should be credited: "From the Centropa Collection at the United States Memorial Museum in Washington, DC". Please contact collection [at] centropa.org.
