Rose Katz collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Carl and Morton Katz
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Morton Katz, son of Rose Katz.
Scope and Content
Papers, documents, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Rose Reichman Katz's (donor's mother) extended family in Raslavice, Slovakia before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes correspondence received by Rose from her family; pre-war photographic images; and receipts dating from the 1930s documenting monies sent from Rose and her husband Milton to her mother and father Hermine and Wolf Reichman and their extended family in Slovakia. Documents indicate Rose's siblings were deported in 1942 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland where they are presumed to have perished.
Subjects
- Raslavice (Slovakia)
Genre
- Document
- Receipts.
- Letters.