Joseph Winkler papers

Identifier
irn47459
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.335.1
Dates
1 Jan 1906 - 31 Dec 1988, 1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47459

Extent and Medium

box

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Maria P. Winkler

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Maria P. Winkler.

Scope and Content

Identification and travel documents, news clippings, photographs (20), correspondence, and other materials documenting the experiences of Joseph (Jozef) Winkler, a Polish petroleum engineer, in his pre-war professional and academic life in Drohobycz and Lwow, Poland; his wartime exile in the Soviet Union; his immediate postwar years as a Polish commercial attaché in Washington, DC and New York; and his immigration to the United States with his wife, Aniela, and daughter, Marie, in 1947.

Subjects

  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Lviv (Ukraine)
  • Drohobych (Ukraine).

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.