Jack and Marilyn Pechter collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Jack and Marilyn Pechter.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of identification canteen notes, identification tags, scrip, clippings, correspondence, documents, a map, propaganda materials, photographic postcards, photographs, and a philatelic collection documenting pre-war Jewish life, anti-Semitism, the Dreyfus Affair, the arrest of Herschel Grynspan, multiple concentration camps, and World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Genre
- Collection