Alfred and Emma Pisko papers
Extent and Medium
folders
3
Creator(s)
- Emma Pisko
- Alfred Pisko
Biographical History
Alfred Rudolph Pisko (1902-1990) was born in Vienna on November 1, 1902 to Adolf Pisko and Ida Weissenberg Pisko. He moved to the United Kingdom in May 1939. He served in the British Army in the Ancillary Military Police Corps and Royal Army Ordnance Corps from 1940-1945. He married Emma Heumann in 1940, and the couple immigrated to the United States in 1948.
Emma Heumann Pisko (1909-1980) was born on May 6, 1909 in Lechenich, Germany to Moritz Heumann and Henriette Vohs Heumann. Emma moved to the United Kingdom in July 1937. She married Alfred Pisko in 1940, and the couple immigrated to the United States in 1948.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dr. Maria Weissenberg Barrows
Dr. Maria Weissenberg Barrows, cousin of Alfred and Emma Pisko, donated the Alfred and Emma Pisko papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018.
Scope and Content
The Alfred and Emma Pisko papers include birth certificates, United Kingdom certificates of registration, travel documents, and a marriage certificate for Alfred and Emma Pisko as well as a photograph of the couple in 1980. The registration certificates indicate that Alfred and Emma were exempt from internment because they were refugees from Nazi oppression. Additional military and immigration records documenting Alfred Pisko include an enlistment attestation, service records (pay book, release book, record of service card), declaration of intention to become an American citizen, and certificate of naturalization. The papers also include a telegram announcing the death of Alfred’s mother.
System of Arrangement
The Alfred and Emma Pisko papers are arranged as a single series.
People
- Pisko, Emma, 1909-1980.
- Alfred Pisko
- Emma Pisko
- Pisko, Alfred, 1902-1990.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Jewish refugees--Great Britain.
- Jews--Germany--Lechenich.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History.
Genre
- Document