Schmelc collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Rachel Fleminger donated these documents to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Division on Sep. 9, 2003.
Scope and Content
Consists of documents relating to the Schmelc family: a 1940 letter addressed to Leo Malzner; a 1946 report that Samuel Schmelz Matzner was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz in 1942; and a 1947 letter from "L'Entraide Temporaire," describing two children, Jacques and Rachel Schmelc, and providing the details of their imminent emigration to Canada. Both documents are addressed to Madame Gottlieb, in Montreal, Canada.
Subjects
- Sarzeau (France).
- Canada--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Document
- Letters.