Ruth Pizyc Berlinger collection

Identifier

irn597494

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2018.345.1

Dates

1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1946

Level of Description

Item

Languages

English
Polish

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn597494

Extent and Medium

folder

glass slide

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ruth Pizyc Berlinger

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ruth Pizyc Berlinger.

Scope and Content

Contains a memoir (photocopy of an original held by Yad Vashem) written by Miriam Pizyc Flint (donor's sister) regarding the Warsaw ghetto uprising; a letter and envelope written to Ruth in Sweden after the war by Casimier Bieberstein (later Casimir Biebers) in Canada, in English; letter in Polish written to Ruth from a friend dated June 19, 1946; family photographs and copy print of Ruth with her husband and friends in Stockholm after the war; and a glass negative with image of Ruth and her pet dog taken in pre-war Warsaw, circa 1936-1937.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Subjects

Sweden.
Warsaw Ghetto (Warsaw, Poland)

Genre

Negatives.
Photographs.
Document
Personal narratives.

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