Josef Pistiner family collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Arona Pistiner.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of badges, wallets, watercolors, correspondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials related to the experiences of Josef Pistiner and his family, including his parents, Aron and Taube, and brother, Max, before the Holocaust in Galicia, Bukovina, and Berlin and during the Holocaust in Berlin, their 1939 emigration via China to the United States, as well as documents from Josef Pistiner’s service in the U.S. Army during World War II, and restitution files from the 1960s-1970s.
Genre
- Collection