Zonligt family collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Natanya Sortland, the granddaughter of Gerard Samuel Zonligt.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, postcards, photographs, pocket mirror, wooden cradle, diary, poesie book, reports, naturalization documents, published works, awards and other original materials pertaining to the Zonligt and Blitz families of the Netherlands, Belgium, and later of the United States. Gerard Samuel Zonligt's postwar work as an U.N.R.R.A. DP camp administor is also covered therein.
Genre
- Collection