Zelig Wasser diary

Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Consists primarily of handwritten diary pages that were kept by Sidney "Zelig" Wasser, a survivor from Kielce, Poland, while he was living in hiding in the woods after his escape from Henryków Arbeitslager, a forced labor camp, in May 1944. The diary pages were hidden in glass bottles and a majority were recovered after the war. The collection also includes correspondence, an illustrated map of Henryków with an identification key, Wasser's various translations of the diary and transcriptions of notes in both English and Polish, and a timeline capturing his experiences from when war broke out in Europe in 1939, his escape from the camp in 1944, liberation by the Russian Army in 1945, and his arrival in the U.S. in 1946.