Berko family papers

Identifier

irn561116

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2017.328.1

Dates

1 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1996

Level of Description

Item

Languages

Hungarian

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn561116

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lenore Lichtman

Gift of Lenore Lichtman, 2017.

Scope and Content

Correspondence, from Ignatz Berko, sent to family members in New York, circa 1937-1941; among the recipients were son Louis (Lajos) Berkow, and daughters Sadie Grossman and Rose Rubin. Also includes copy of certificate attesting to Andor Lichtman's imprisonment at Mauthausen, 1944-1945; and copy prints of photographs of Ignatz Berko and family (original was from circa 1932), and of a memorial plaque for Ernest Lichtman at the site of the Ebensee concentration camp.

Corporate Bodies

Genre

Letters.
Photographs.
Document
Certificates.

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