Robert Gunther Spiro papers

Identifier
irn597400
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2018.173.1
  • 2018.284
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn597400

Extent and Medium

folders

oversize box

2

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mary Jane Spiro

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Mary Jane Spiro, wife of Robert Gunther Spiro.

Scope and Content

Collection of letters, photographic postcards, and memoir written by Robert Gunther Spiro in 2008 in which he describes the experiences endured by his family members during the Holocaust. Includes letters written by Gunter to his family in Germany and England; postcards sent to members of the Spiro-Lowenstein family in Berlin, Germany; and cards sent to Gunter Spiro in Gstaad, Switzerland in 1938 and 1939, where he was in boarding school. In 1939, he joined his family who fled Nazi occupation, arriving in New York in 1940.

Genre

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.

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