David Kirszencwajg papers
Extent and Medium
box
oversize folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David M. Kirszencwajg
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by David M. Kirszencwajg.
Scope and Content
The papers consist of letters and postcards written in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, by members of the Kirszencwajg family to Vilna, Poland, and Shanghai, China; documents relating to David Kirszencwajg and his life in Poland before World War II and his life in Shanghai, China, during the war; and photographs depicting David Kirszencwajg and his family in Warsaw, Poland, before World War II and later in Vilna, Poland, and Shanghai, China
People
- Kirszencwajg, David M.
Subjects
- Refugees, Jewish--China--Shanghai.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--China--Shanghai.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Postcards.
- Letters.
- Document