Ziskind family correspondence, 1929-1939

Identifier
irn34860
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.46.1
Dates
1 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn34860

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Edith Alpert Allard

Correspondence written from the Ziskind family in Krewo, Poland to Sadie Nechama Ziskind (donor's mother) in Chicago, IL, 1929-1939. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Edith Allard.

Scope and Content

Correspondence from the Ziskind family in Krewo, Poland (today in Belarus) to Sadie Nechama Ziskind, later Alpert, in Chicago, IL. The letters are written in Yiddish, between 1929-1939. In most of the letters the Ziskind family asks for additional correspondence and some financial support. Sadie Ziskind left Krewo in 1915 just being 16 years old. She married William Alpert and they had three children: Edith, Jean, and Louis.

Subjects

  • Poland.

Genre

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