Josef Broniatowski correspondence
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Josef Broniatowski
Biographical History
Josef Broniatowski was expelled from Germany on October 28, 1938, along with other Polish Jews. He described the experience in letters to his sons who had immigrated to the United States.
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.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this material from Elias and Irving Klein on January 31, 2000.
Scope and Content
The Josef Broniatowski papers include two typewritten letters from Plauen, dated July 1938, documenting Broniatowski’s efforts to immigrate to the United States and two handwritten letters Broniatowski wrote from Częstochowa in November 1938 to his sons in the United States describing his family’s expulsion from Germany during the so-called Polenaktion and the news of Kristallnacht.
System of Arrangement
The Josef Broniatowski correspondence is arranged as a single series: I. Correspondence, 1938
Subjects
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- Operation Poland, Germany, 1938.
- Polish people--Germany.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- Plauen (Germany)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Plauen.
Genre
- Document
- Correspondence.