Sam Szyja Braun collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Cindy Braun Rosborough
Acquired by Szyja Braun (donor's father), 1949-1950. Inherited by Cindy Braun Rosborough. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Cindy Braun Rosborough.
Scope and Content
Contains a displaced persons certificate issued by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) to Szyja Braun in Bad Cannstatt, Germany, dated 1949; photographs depicting Szyja Braun, his brother Salomon Braun and friends they met in the displaced persons camp; and a declaration of intention filed by Sam (Szyja) Braun on February 21, 1950 regarding his intention of becoming a U.S. citizen. Szyja Yeshajahu Sam Braun was born in Breslau on May 18, 1919. He was a son of Eliasz and Gusta Alstock Braun. The family lived in Brody. Szyje and his two brothers, Salomon and Willie were the only survivors of seven siblings
Corporate Bodies
- HIAS (Agency)
Subjects
- Displaced persons camps.
- Stuttgart (Germany)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Certificates.