Plesser family collection

Identifier
irn551384
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.436.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn551384

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Phyllis Becker This gift is made in memory of her maternal grandparents Perla Shapira Plesser and Mendel Plesser.

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Phillis Becker, grandaughter of Perla Shapira Plesser and Mendel Plesser.

Scope and Content

Contains correspondence from Mendel and Perla Pepi Plesser in Hamburg Altona, the Zbąszyń area for expelled Polish citizens, and later in Stanisławów, addressed to their children Klara (b. December 14, 1921 [donor's mother]) and Oskar (b. May 29, 1920 [donor's maternal uncle]), who had arrived in the US on August 22, 1938.

Subjects

  • Stanisławów (Poland)
  • Zbąszyń (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.