Finding Aid for the Moshe Rafalowicz collection. 2020.002.h.r

Tiana Taliep

Oskar Schindler Archives

1.14.2020

Note

Located with the Orphan Collection

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

Condition Description: Good

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 .

Content Description

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.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing 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.

Preferred Citation

[Item Title/description; Box number/Foler number] Moshe Rafalowicz collection (2020.002.h.r), Oskar Schindler Archive, Chapman University, CA.

Bibliography

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