Betty Weissberger Lauer papers

The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Betty Lauer (born Berta Weissberger), originally of Hindenburg (Zabrze, Poland). Consists of an identity card (kennkarte) issued to Krystyna Zotkos, the false identity Betty used in the Generalgouvernement in September 1942. Also included is a document, dated October 5, 1937, confiscating the property of Oskar Weissberger, Betty's father, who was able to immigrate to the United States, and a good conduct certificate for Berta Weissberger dated January 4, 1939. Also includes a story entitled "Friends 1940-1942" written by Betty Lauer in 1991 about a relationship between Menek and Eva in the Krosno ghetto. Betty Lauer was born Berta Weissberger on 1 March 1925 in Hindenburg (Zabrze, Poland) to Oskar (1893-1976) and Ilona (1900-1995) Weissberger. She had one sister Eva. By August 1939 Betty lived in Krosno, Poland with her aunt. After the German invasion of Poland, Betty was sent to a forced-labor camp. In 1942 she obtained a false identity card and lived under the name Krystyna Zotkos until the end of the war. Her father immigrated to the United States by 1940. Her mother immigrated to the United States in 1946. Betty immigrated to the United States in 1946, and married Laurence Lauer in Brooklyn, New York in 1949.