Wallace Witkowski photograph collection

Wallace A. Witkowski was born in 1928 in Kielce, Poland, to a Polish Catholic family. His father was a chemical engineer, and his mother was a teacher. The Germans occupied Kielce in 1939. Wallace witnessed pogroms against Jews in 1942. Wallace was active in the resistance, acting as a courier between partisan groups. In 1946, in liberated Poland, Wallace witnessed the Kielce pogrom. He emigrated to the United States in 1949. The three photographs in the collection are studio portraits of Wallace Witkowski in 1945, Wallace Witkowski and his sister in 1946, and Wallace Witkowski's mother in 1943.