Gluck family collection
Acquisition
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Sherwin Gluck, son of Irving Gluck.
Scope and Content
Documents, datebooks, correspondence, V-mails, photograph albums, loose photos, maps, scrip, souvenir materials (including a "Heidelberg" letter opener), notebooks, reparations and restitution papers related to Irving Gluck and his family; also includes a wooden box made by a German POW who he was guarding; Irving Gluck's embroidered tefillin pouch and pair of tefillin, a scroll of Esther, dog tags, two mezuzot, a US Army jacket, an army mess cup (with personal inscriptions), an army duffel bag, medals and insignias, and pieces of Irving's broken eyeglasses from the Battle of Anzio; Irving's brother Herman Gluck's dog tags, his sisters Marie Gluck and Hermine (Gluck) Solomon's blue star flag, and Marie Gluck's memoir. Additional items include an interview with Irving Gluck, a recording of a 1994 survivor reunion in Israel featuring survivor testimony, a recording of an Italian radio interview with him, prayer books, a Hungarian-English dictionary, a Hungarian-English phrase book, a prayer book and haggadah for the US Armed Forces, and German army cap and shirt patches. The collection also features English translations from Hungarian of letters, V-mails and documents.
Genre
- Collection