Menashe family collection

Identifier
irn518450
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.243
  • 2021.173
Dates
1 Jan 1926 - 31 Dec 1980
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

3

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Meryl Menashe

Meryl Menashe donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on August 4, 2005.

Scope and Content

Consists of documents, identity cards, photographs, and haggadot related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of the Menashe family, originally of Thessaloniki, Greece. Includes birth certificates, marriage certificates, and United States naturalization certificates, as well as two family copies of the haggadah. Also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of members of the Menashe family. Of the nine children of Issac (Ino) and Sara Menashe, only four survived the war: Pauline immigrated to the United States before the war, Oro and Sylvia survived Auschwitz, and Nissim spent the war hiding in Athens. In total, the Menashes lost sixty members of their close family.

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.