Object numberM2009/098:009
DescriptionB&W Photograph of Feliks Gryff with outstretched arms with three other released prisoners in a forest environment, taken "A day before reuniting with wife and son".
Felix immigrated to Australia in 1956.
Part of a collection of 31 letters and 7 telegrams, dated 1955, from Felix Gryff to his wife Halina Gryff and his son Stefan, from the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan which was a Republic of the Soviet Union, to No 6 University Street, apartment No 9 Warsaw, Poland. Some of the letters are responses back to him from his mother and his wife. Stefan was two years old at the time of his father’s arrest.
Felix Gryff, a Polish Jew, was arrested in 1943 as a spy. He was tortured and forced to admit to political crimes that he had never committed. He was deported to a Kushmangor, a Russian Gulag, for forced labour, for 12 years, until his release in September 1955.
The collection was donated by Yola Schneider (nee Rawdin). Feliks Gryff was her mother’s brother. Many of the letters contain pressed flowers. Incomplete accession. Needs translation - Polish to English.
Felix immigrated to Australia in 1956.
Part of a collection of 31 letters and 7 telegrams, dated 1955, from Felix Gryff to his wife Halina Gryff and his son Stefan, from the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan which was a Republic of the Soviet Union, to No 6 University Street, apartment No 9 Warsaw, Poland. Some of the letters are responses back to him from his mother and his wife. Stefan was two years old at the time of his father’s arrest.
Felix Gryff, a Polish Jew, was arrested in 1943 as a spy. He was tortured and forced to admit to political crimes that he had never committed. He was deported to a Kushmangor, a Russian Gulag, for forced labour, for 12 years, until his release in September 1955.
The collection was donated by Yola Schneider (nee Rawdin). Feliks Gryff was her mother’s brother. Many of the letters contain pressed flowers. Incomplete accession. Needs translation - Polish to English.
Production date 1955
Subjectgulag, forced labour
Object namephotographs
Dimensions
- height: 65.00 mm
width: 95.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Yola Schneider