Distenfeld family collection
Extent and Medium
folder
oversize folder
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1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fred Distenfeld
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022 by Fred Distenfeld, the son of Joseph and Matilde Goldwurm Distenfeld
Scope and Content
The collection consists of Joseph Distenfeld and Matilde Goldwurm’s tenaim (July 21, 1940) from Lvov, Poland (now Lʹviv, Ukraine), and ketubah (March 17, 1941). There are a range of postwar identity documents and emigration papers in Italian, English, and Hebrew, the bulk of which are from the family’s time in Milan, Italy. These include their son’s, Efraim (Fred), birth certificate There is some correspondence from their time in Italy, as well as the United States, where the family settled. Also included are some of Joseph’s education documents from pre-and-postwar.
Subjects
- United States.
- Milan (Italy)
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document
- Identity Documents.
- Ketubah.
- Calendar.
- Documents.