Sally Muschel collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Sally Muschel
Biographical History
Sally Muschel was born in Dombrowa, Poland in 1929. In 1939, Muschel's parents, Joseph and Brenda Michlowitz, sent her to the USSR. During World War II, Muschel was placed on a transport toSiberia. She stayed there for three years. After the war, Muschel found out that her father had been shot by the Nazis for refusing to head the Judenrat of Dombrowa and that her mother had died in Auschwitz concentration camp. Muschel married in Lechfeld, Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1949. Today, Muschel is the mother of two married daughters and has seven grandchildren.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sally Muschel
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Sally Muschel donated the Sally Muschel collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.
Scope and Content
The Sally Muschel collection consists of photographs of school children and teachers at the Ainring displaced persons camp; baggage tags used in her immigration to the United States; two certificates issued by the World ORT Union 5th Area H.Q. Vocational School in Lechfeld, Germany; a telegram; and a letter.
System of Arrangement
The Sally Muschel collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Muschel, Sally.
- Muschel, Bernard.
- Muschel, Frida.
- Muschel, Meir.
Subjects
- Ainring (Germany)
- Displaced persons--Europe.
- Germany.
- Children.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Bad Reichenhall (Germany)
- Lechfeld (Germany)
Genre
- Document