Lester Striker collection

Identifier
irn548057
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.541.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn548057

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lester Striker

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Lester Striker, son of Max Striker.

Scope and Content

Documents and correspondence illustrating the efforts of Szyja and Beila Lazar and their children, Perla and Samuel, to emigrate from Kraków, Poland in 1940. Included is a typed letter that Beila sent to the American Consulate in Berlin, Germany on which she also wrote a personal letter to her brother Max Striker (donor's father) in Brooklyn, NY. Letter indicates that the family has been deported from Kraków, and asks for packages of food and clothing as conditions are not good. Szyja, Beila, Perla and Samuel were killed.

Subjects

  • Poland--Emigration and immigration.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Kraków (Poland).

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.