"Letters from the ashes, written and compiled by Jo Ann Glickman"
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Jo Ann Glickman sent her manuscript to Susan Goldstein in October, 1997. Susy Goldstein of the Art and Artifacts Department transferred it to the Archives in October 1997.
Scope and Content
Contains Jo Ann Glickman's English translations of correspondence, circa August 1939-March1943, primarily from her grandfather, Albert Kahn, from Munich, Germany, to her parents and her in the United States; reproductions of family photographs and papers, circa 1827-1996; Jo Ann Glickman's childhood recollections of life in prewar Germany and in the United States, to which she immigrated in 1939; and Kahn, Hainsfurther, Lustig, Eigner and Glickman family trees.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document