Richard Schifter collection

Identifier
irn543307
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Richard Schifter.

Scope and Content

Correspondence, postcards, photographs, pins, patches, medallions, notebooks, and related documents and ephemera, related to the history of the Schifter family of Vienna, Austria, and the immigration of Richard Schifter to the United States in 1938 and his subsequent service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Includes family photographs, postcards and correspondence from Paul Schifter during his service in the Austrian Army during World War I, documents related to Paul Schifter's business ventures in the United States during the 1920s, school documents for Richard Schifter in Austria and the United States, documents from Richard Schifter's military service, correspondence from friends and family, including correspondence sent to Schifter by his parents after his emigration from Austria, 1938-1941; and related materials. Also includes Schifter's uniform jacket from the U.S. Army, and an album that belonged to his mother, containing photographs and postcards that had been sent to her.

Genre

  • Collection
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