Ann Hershkowitz papers

The papers consist of an identification card issued to Hanka Schudmak (later Ann Hershkowitz) and stating that she was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen, two photographs of Hanka standing near the grave of her younger sister, Itka Schudmak, at the International Cemetery at Bergen-Belsen, and a photograph of the gravestone of Itka Schudmak. Itka Schudmak, Ann Hershkowitz's younger sister, died of typhus on May 27, 1945, after liberation at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Ann Hershkowitz was born Hanka Schudmak on 3 February 1925 in Chrzanów, Poland to Jakob and Gitla Schudmak (née Bachner). She had five siblings: David, Moshe, Rutka, Salomon (b. 1923), and Itka. In February 1942 Ann was sent to the Schoenberg forced-labor camp. In 1943 she was deported to the Graeben subcamp of Gross-Rosen and transferred to Bergen-Belsen in September 1944. She was liberated on 15 April 1945. Her sister Itka was also liberated, but perished on 27 May 1945 from typhus. Salomon and Rutka both survived the Holocaust.