Letters searching for relatives

Identifier
irn715734
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2020.22.5
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

oversize folder

1

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. The acquisition of this collection was made possible by Lila Oliver Asher

Funding Note: The acquisition of this artifact was made possible by Lila Oliver Asher.

The letters were acquired by the United States Holocast Memorial Museum in 2020.

Scope and Content

Five paper items related to the search for relatives during and after World War II. Includes a document sent from a branch of the Jewish Agency in London to the Agency's representative in Jerusalem, containing information about Holocaust survivors in Europe, July 1944; a letter by the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council, with a request to track down a Holocaust survivor's sister, who was alone in Belsen, August 1945; a telegram on a form of the Hungarian Red Cross, sent from Újpest, Budapest, to Kibbutz Tel-Yosef, by a father who had not heard from his son for nine months, December 1941; a typewritten note, which sent from Palestine to an envoy in Italy, about the search for a man in a camp in the area of Torino (undated); a printed leaflet, "Telegrams, letters and regards from the survivors among the Jews of Poland who were accepted by the United Committee for Aiding the Jews of Poland, Jerusalem" (Hebrew), Jerusalem, circa 1945-1946.

Corporate Bodies

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.