Dorothy Shapiro collection
Extent and Medium
oversize folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dorothy Shapiro
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Dorothy B. Shapiro donated the Dorothy Shapiro collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989.
Scope and Content
Consists of American newspaper articles discussing the situation of Jews in the immediate postwar era. Includes two letters from the Vaad Hatzala rescue organization addressed to Dorothy Shapiro, dated March and April 1945, acknowledging her fundraising efforts.
System of Arrangement
The Dorothy Shapiro collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Karlinsky, Jacob.
- Shapiro, Dorothy.
Corporate Bodies
- Vaad Hatzala (New York, N.Y.)
- Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
Subjects
- Zionists -- Associations, institutions, etc.
Genre
- Letters.
- Correspondence.
- Newspaper articles.
- Document
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