Mike Prayzer papers
Collection Overview
The collection consists of newspaper clippings and a videotaped interview of Mike Prayzer, a Jewish native of Bendzin, Poland, who survived imprisonment in ten concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau. Prayzer immigrated to the United States in 1949.
Dates
- Creation: 1982-1995
Creator
- Prayzer, Mike, 1922-1995 (Person)
Language of Material
Materials in English
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
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Biographical Note
Mayer "Mike" Prayzer was born in Bendzin, Poland, in 1922. Prayzer, his parents, four brothers, and a sister, were all arrested following the Nazi invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II. Over the course of the war, he was imprisoned in ten different concentration camps, including Auschwitz. He was in Dachau concentration camp when it was liberated by American troops in April 1945.
Prayzer stayed in Germany after the war to look for relatives who survived. He found three of his brothers, but his fourth brother, his sister, and his parents were all dead. While searching, Prayzer met Esther Fromovitz, a native of Romania and a fellow survivor. They were married in Rehau, Germany, in August 1946, and immigrated to the United States in 1949 with their young son Morris. In 1951, after settling in Lorain, Ohio, their daughter, Bernice, was born, followed by son Kenneth in 1960.
Extent
0.25 linear feet (1 folder, 1 videocassette)
Abstract
The collection consists of newspaper clippings and a videotaped interview of Mike Prayzer, a Jewish native of Bendzin, Poland, who survived imprisonment in ten concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau. Prayzer immigrated to the United States in 1949.
Collection Arrangement
Materials are described at the folder level.
Acquisitions Information
Materials donated in 2005 by Bernice Prayzer Rubin.
Processing Information
Processed by Rebecca McClure, April 2012.
Subject
- Prayzer, Mike, 1922-1995 (Person)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) (Organization)
- Dachau (Concentration camp) (Organization)
Source
- Rubin, Bernice Prayzer (Donor, Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Inventory of the Mike Prayzer papers, 1982-1995
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by: Rebecca McClure; machine-readable finding aid created by: Rebecca McClure
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the processing of this collection and encoding of the finding aid.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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