Ruth Kantor collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Ruth Kantor donated the Ruth Kantor collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Scope and Content
The Ruth Kantor collection consists of pre-war photographs of family members of Joseph and Ruth Kantor in Poland, as well as a photograph of the Kantors, circa 1980s-1990s. The collection also includes two postcards sent from the Birkenau concentration camp, 1943. One postcard appears to be addressed from Ruth’s mother to Ruth Kantor.
System of Arrangement
The Ruth Kantor collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Kantor, Joseph.
- Kantor, Ruth.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Poland.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Postcards.
- Document
- Photographs.