Zechanowitsch (George) papers

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Table of contents

Biographical File 1918-1994

box 1, folder 1

George Zechanowitsch biography and Ciechanowicz/Sawicki family history 1994-1998

box 1, folder 2

Birth certificate and Vilnius documents 1918-1940

box 1, folder 3

Uniwersytet Stefana Batorego 1937-1939

box 1, folder 4

Vienna, Graz 1942-1944

Scope and Contents note

Austrian Fremdenpass, student ID for Technische Hochschule Graz, Meldebuch and other documents from Technische Hochschule in Wien.

box 1, folder 5

Linz 1945-1946

Scope and Contents note

Police registration, marriage certificate, displaced person registration-certificate/Registrierungsbescheinigung, United Nations DP identification card, employment verifications.

box 1, folder 6

Canada 1948-1994

Scope and Contents note

Immigration identification card, Department of Labour form, article off-print, copy of death certificate.

Family Biographical File 1867-1945

box 1, folder 7

Maternal grandmother 1867-1945

Scope and Contents note

Documents relating to the life of Anna Savitskaia (Анна Савицкая, Anna Sawicka, Ona Savickiene), née Geisler (Гейслер, Geysler, Häusler), born a Baltic German but a resident of St. Petersburg until the Revolution. Birth certificate, 1867; affidavit of 1890 marriage, 1927; certification of widow status, 1909; document from the Russian Orthodoxy eparchy of Lithuania, 1922; Polish Vilnius residency certificate, 1922; Lithuanian Vilnius identity card and residency certificate, 1940-1941; testament handwritten in Russian with certified German translation, 1943; German identity and residency documents; death certificate, 1945.

box 1, folder 8

Maternal grandmother, property 1923-1942

Scope and Contents note

Documents related to Anna Savitskaia's property in Lithuania, which supported her and George Zechanowitsch during the inter-war years.

box 1, folder 9

Mother and father 1890-1942

Scope and Contents note

Birth certificate, high school diploma, and marriage certificates of George Zechanowitch's mother, Olga Alekseevna Savitskaia (Ольга Алексеевна Савицкая). Information about the death in 1941 of his father, Peter Stanislaus Ciechanowicz (Petr Stanislav Adolfovich Tsekhanovich, Петр Станислав Адольфович Цеханович) in Auschwitz.

box 1, folder 10

Other family 1869-1917

Scope and Contents note

Documents relating to the St. Petersburg/Petrograd life of members of George Zechanowitsch's mother's family: full service record of Egor Geisler (Eгор Гейслер); birth certificate and full military record of Aleksei Iakovlevich Savitskii (Алексей Яковлевич Савицкий); marriage certificate of godfather Mikhail Georgievich Geisler (Михаил Георгиевич Гейслер), 1915; certification of parish records reflecting birth and christening in Vilnius in 1892 and death in Petrograd of aunt Zinaida Savitskaia (Зинаида Савицкая), 1917.

Photographs 1890-1990

box 1, folder 11

George, father's family, mother 1890-1990

Scope and Contents note

George Zechanowitsch at age 7, in university (with friends) in Vilnius, and in 1993; Ciechanowicz family portrait, including Peter Stanislaus Ciechanowicz's mother, father and grandmother, circa 1900?; Olga Alekseevna Savitskaia at 2, as an adolescent, and with her mother-in-law in Vilnius, 1914.

box 1, folder 12

Maternal grandmother, mother's family 1867-1940

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Anna Geysler at 2 and as a young girl, young woman, young mother (Anna Savitskaia), and middle-aged woman; unidentified portrait of a Geysler taken in Libau; Zinaida Savitskaia (Зинаида Савицкая) as a student and young woman; Vladimir Savitskii; Boris Bliss.

Collection Contents

Biographical File

Family Biographical File

Photographs