Myron Bassman collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Myron Bassman
The collection was donated the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Myron Bassman.
Scope and Content
Correspondence: sent from Sokółka and Dąbrowa near Grodno in Poland by family and friends of Szejna Sylvia Jaroszewska (later Sylvia Bassman, donor's mother) in Brooklyn, NY. Photographs: images of family and friends of Szejna given to her on the occasion of her leaving Poland for the USA in 1939. None of the relatives in Poland survived the Holocaust. Prayer book: hand-bound with an inscription on the cover, dedicated to Szejna by her brother Israel Zvi Jaroszewski.
Subjects
- Dąbrowa (Sokólski, Poland)
- Sokółka (Poland)
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Photographs.
- Document