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Contributing Institution:
Oskar Schindler Archives
Title: Moshe Rafalowicz collection
Identifier/Call Number: 2020.002.h.r
Physical Description:
1 Files
1 folder
Date (bulk): 1945-1958
Abstract: The material in this collection includes a Displacement person card, temporary travel document, Declaration of Intention,
and Certification of Naturalization.
Physical Location: Oskar Schindler Archive
Language of Material:
English
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The material in this collection are items of Moshe Rafalowicz that helped rebuild his life after the Holocaust. Rafalowicz's
first piece of identification post-Holocaust is his identity card from the Jewish Displaced person camp of Fuerth/Bavaria.
There is a temporary travel document in place of a passport that was issued in 1950. The travel document has inked impressions
stamped from Israel from 1950 and 1951. The collection holds two documents from when Rafalowicz emigrated to the United States.
The first is a Declaration of Intention, the preliminary step to become a citizen that was filed in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July
7, 1952. Rafalowicz became a United States citizen on March 15, 1957; this collection contains his Certification of Naturalization
document.
This collection is open for research use.
There is no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.
[Item Title/description; Box number/Foler number] Moshe Rafalowicz collection (2020.002.h.r), Oskar Schindler Archive, Chapman
University, CA.
Moshe Rafalowicz (Mac Raff) was born on December 12, 1919, in Sosnowiec, Poland. Before the occupation of Nazi Germany, he
worked as an upholster. Rafalowicz was liberated from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945. He was located in
camp 2B and had the prisoner number 4737. After the liberation, Rafalowicz went into the Jewish Displaced person camp of Fuerth/Bavaria,
situated in the American-occupied zone. On November 13, 1951, he emigrated to the United States from Bremen, Germany, on the
General C.H. Muir ship. Once arriving, he settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, but later moves to Los Angeles, California. He was
the father to Mitchell Raff. Rafalowicz passed away on April 29, 2006.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holocaust survivors -- History -- 20th Century
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Stateless persons--Europe.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland
Jewish refugees--United States--History--20th century.
Jewish refugees--California, Southern.
Rafalowicz, Moshe