» Weintraub (Guta Blas) papers, circa 1922-2008

Images and newspaper clippings of Guta Blas Weintraub, a Jewish resident of Lodz, Poland, who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to the United States after World War II, settling in Charleston, South Carolina. Pre-war images show members of the Blas and Weintraub families in Lodz and Bodzentyn, Poland. Wartime images show Leon Weintraub in a work camp in Starachowice, Poland, and Guta Blas in Sweden after her rescue. Post-war images show the Weintraubs in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp and in Charleston. Newspaper clippings describe Blas’s resistance when facing execution at Majowka and her later testimony against the guard who shot her.