Jakob Glantz papers

Identifier
irn537206
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.486.1
Dates
1 Jan 1881 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Hungarian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn537206

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Cornelius Donnelly

Neil Donnelly donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Sept. 27, 2006. He purchased the collection at an auction.

Scope and Content

Consists of correspondence, documents, and identity cards related to the experiences of Jakob Glantz, originally of Szaszvar, Hungary. Mr. Glantz moved to Vienna after World War I, married, and opened a photographic studio. He was arrested after Kristallnacht and imprisoned for several months in Dachau. Upon his release, he emigrated, with his wife and daughter, to Shanghai, where he passed away in 1948. The collection includes official documents, school papers, postcards from Dachau, Mr. Glantz's Reisepass, Mr. Glantz's Shanghai Foreigners Resident Certificate, and other personal papers.

Genre

  • Document
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