Pirika Hershkowitz collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Michael Klein
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Michael Klein.
Scope and Content
The collection includes a calendar in which Pirika Hershkowitz noted significant dates after her and her cousin, Matilda Herz, escaped from a death march from Auschwitz-Birkenau on February 2, 1945. The collection also includes pre-war family photographs in Gherla, Romania and post-war photographs from Cluj and Gherla, Romania where Piri Hershkowitz married Karoly Klein on July 27, 1945 as well as an identification document issued by the Romania authorities to Piri Klein and two letters and a note sent from Bucharest to Piri Hershkowitz.
People
- Hershkowitz, Pirika.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Gherla (Romania)
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Weddings.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Genre
- Letters.
- Photographs.
- Document
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