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    <eadid>ca-005461-ra043</eadid>
    <filedesc>
      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper>Loewy postcard collection</titleproper>
      </titlestmt>
      <publicationstmt>
        <publisher>Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>50 - 950 W 41st Ave</addressline>
          <addressline>V5Z2N7</addressline>
          <addressline>Vancouver</addressline>
          <addressline>BC</addressline>
          <addressline>CA</addressline>
          <addressline>+1 604-264-0499</addressline>
          <addressline>http://www.vhec.org/</addressline>
          <addressline>https://collections.vhec.org/</addressline>
          <addressline>info@vhec.org</addressline>
          <addressline>collections@vhec.org</addressline>
          <addressline>Canada</addressline>
        </address>
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        <note>
          <p>This encoded description is derived from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution but may differ in structure and/or content from its source. The collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.</p>
        </note>
      </notestmt>
    </filedesc>
    <profiledesc>
      <creation>This file was exported automatically from the EHRI database administration tool and represents a work-in-progress.
        <date normal="20210102">2021-01-02T18:23:55.955Z</date>
      </creation>
      <langusage>
        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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    <did>
      <unitid>RA043</unitid>
      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Loewy postcard collection</unittitle>
      <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">28 postcards</physdesc>
      <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1942–1943</unitdate>
      <langmaterial>
        <language langcode="deu" encodinganalog="3.4.3">German</language>
      </langmaterial>
      <repository>
        <corpname>Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre</corpname>
      </repository>
    </did>
    <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.1">
      <p><![CDATA[Prepared by Lorenzo Camerini in 2018. Updated by Shyla Seller in 2020 in preparation for upload into Collective Access.]]></p>
    </processinfo>
    <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
      <p><![CDATA[Collection is comprised of twenty-eight postcards written by Sylvia Loewy, in Stockholm, Sweden, to her husband, Fritz, after his 1942 arrest and deportation. Not knowing where her husband was, Sylvia sent the postcards by registered mail to shtetls, ghettos and concentration camps throughout the Polish General Government territory. The postcards were sent in batches with similar messages, explaining that she lives in Sweden, that she is fine, and that she hopes to receive news from her husband as soon as possible.]]></p>
    </scopecontent>
    <arrangement encodinganalog="3.3.4">
      <p><![CDATA[Postcards have been arranged in chronological order by the archivist.]]></p>
    </arrangement>
    <otherfindaid encodinganalog="3.4.5">
      <p><![CDATA[Item level descriptions are available.]]></p>
    </otherfindaid>
    <accruals encodinganalog="3.3.3">
      <p><![CDATA[No further accruals are expected.]]></p>
    </accruals>
    <custodhist encodinganalog="3.2.3">
      <p><![CDATA[Postcards were purchased by Harold Golden, a stamp collector and retired policeman from Abbotsford, British Columbia, in the 1990s. Golden gave the postcards to Dan Shmilovitch, executive director of King David School in Vancouver, with the request that Shmilovitch pass them on to an archival organization. Dan Shmilovitch gave the postcards to Robert Krell, who donated them to the VHEC in February, 2008.]]></p>
    </custodhist>
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      <p>
        <bibref><![CDATA[Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre]]></bibref>
      </p>
    </processinfo>
    <controlaccess>
      <subject>Communications</subject>
    </controlaccess>
    <controlaccess>
      <famname>Loewy, Sylvia and Fritz</famname>
    </controlaccess>
    <controlaccess>
      <genreform>Textual record</genreform>
    </controlaccess>
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