Szyja Herszkopf documents
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Miriam Herszkopf
Miriam Herszkopf donated her family's documents to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2010.
Scope and Content
Consists of an identity card issued by the "Ausschuss ehemaliger Konzentrations-Häftlinge, Hannover," on October 3, 1945, with photograph, stating that Szia Herszkopf is a survivor of a concentration camp, and listing his tattooed prisoner number, as well as noting his food ration allocation. Also includes a processing identity card giving medical information issued by the I.R.O. issued to Szyja Herszkopf, dated August 1948, stamped at the IRO center in Fallingbostel.
Corporate Bodies
- International Refugee Organization
Subjects
- Jewish refugees--Germany--Hannover.
- Ex-concentration camp inmates--Germany.
Genre
- Identity cards.
- Document