Richard Mandelik collection
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Richard Mandelik
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Corine M. Coon donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 2006. Richard Mandelik was her paternal uncle.
Scope and Content
Consists of letters to and from Richard (Rico) Mandelik, while he was imprisoned in the German auxiliary jail in Prague, Czechoslovakia from 1939-1940 and letters, on concentration camp stationery, from Sachsenhausen and Oranienburg from 1941-1942. Mr. Mandelik most likely perished in Oranienburg. The collection also includes several clandestine letters written by Mr. Mandelik in 1939 by pushing a pin through the paper to form letters, as well as pre-war photoprints of the Mandelik family, originally of Hroubovice, Czechoslovakia.
People
- Mandelik, Richard.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Prague (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document
- Photographs.