Tarshish family collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jola Yael Tarshish Sternberg
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Ms. Jola Y. Sternberg
Scope and Content
Correspondence among members of the Tarshish family members in the Łódź ghetto; the Warta ghetto; the POW camp in Radziwilow; Karaganda, USSR; Moscow; and Kovno during the Holocaust and immediately after liberation. Photographs depict Itzchak Katzenelson (1886-1944) who opened a secular Hebrew school in Łódź and served as its principal until the outbreak of the war.
Subjects
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warta.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Moscow (Russia)
- Warta (Poland)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Correspondence.
- Document