Wolf and Gidanskis letters
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tahma Metz
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Tahma Metz donated the Wolf and Gidanskis letters to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009.
Scope and Content
The Wolf and Gidanskis letters consist of letters written in Yiddish between December 1938 and April 1941 in Lithuanian. One letter was written by Yitzhak Zev Wolf and eleven letters by Josef Gidanskis to his niece, Esther Golde. In the letters, Mr. Gidanskis discusses pre-war Jewish life in Lithuania and alludes to the news he is hearing about the Holocaust.
System of Arrangement
The Wolf and Gidanskis letters are arranged in a single series.
People
- Gidanskis, Josef.
- Wolf, Yitzhak Zev.
- Golde, Esther.
Subjects
- Lithuania.
- Jews--Lithuania--History--20th century.
- Jews--Lithuania.
Genre
- Document
- Correspondence.