Joseph Shein collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Joseph Shein donated the poem to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Jul. 15, 2003. The rest of the collection was added in Dec. 2003. The books were transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library in Jan. 2004.
Scope and Content
Contains one copyprint of a poem, written in Yiddish, entitled "The shtetl is burning," by Mordechai Gebertig; photograph of the common grave, in Czȩstochowa, Poland, commemorating the deaths of Jewish resistance fighters in March 1943; photograph of message written on a wall by a resistance fighter in Czȩstochowa immediately before his death; one book regarding the Czȩstochowa ghetto, written by Liber Brenner; and one bound copy of "The story of our family," by Yitzhak Shein.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
- Poems.