Petzal family collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rachel Moses
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Rachel Moses.
Scope and Content
Contains a Red Cross letter sent by Grete Werner in Palestine to her sister Lotti Bieber in Piaski, Poland, dated August 27, 1942, and returned with annotation: "Address moved away"; a letter written by Hilde Petzal in Piaski, probably in 1940, describing the terrible conditions the family was in after their deportation from Stettin in February 1940; letters written by the Petzal family in Piaski to their cousins in Washington, DC, dated c. 1940; letters written by Ingeborge Petzal in Germany to her brother Horst in Palestine, dated c. 1939; an identification certificate issued to Ingeborg Petzal in Bern, Switzerland on August 29, 1945; and family portraits of the Petzal family in Arnswalde, Germany, dated c. 1930.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mrs. Rachel Moses
Subjects
- Piaski (Lublin, Poland)
Genre
- Letters.
- Document
- Photograph.