Blanche Davids Gewirtz papers
Extent and Medium
boxes
3
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Blanche Davids Gewirtz
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Blanche Gewirtz
Scope and Content
Photographs, legal documents, and correspondence from donor's paternal uncle, Leo Davids, who immigrated to the United States and facilitated the donor's parents immigration to the US in 1938. Includes a second group of materials consisting of photos and papers belonging to donor's mother's grandmother Fanny Kaufman, and her parents Bernard and Pauline Fischer. A majority of the donor's extended family on both sides perished in the Auschwitz and Sobibor concentration camps in 1942 and 1943.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Blanche Gewirtz
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Document
- Letters.
- Photographs.
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