Reis family papers
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eva Reis
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Originally owned by Lejzor Reis (donor's husband), and acquired by Eva Reis after his death in 1992. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Eva Reis.
Scope and Content
Contains a photograph portrait of large group of people, inscribed on verso in ink: "I / People from Kielce (Dad's Home City) / after war / This picture is from Kielce Poland before the pogrom, they / all were kilt (sic) in the pogrom / 1946 Kielce," created in Kielce, Poland, early 1945; and an identity card issued to Lejzor Rajz (donor's husband), August 1945, in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, confirming that he had been a prisoner in the Buchenwald and Dachau camps.
System of Arrangement
The Reis family papers is arranged in a single series.
Subjects
- Poland.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Identification documents.
- Document