Kresch family collection
Extent and Medium
oversize folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Curatorial Affairs Department
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Holly Blum
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Holly Blum donated the Kresch family collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011.
Scope and Content
The Kresch family collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and identification documents related to the Kresch family of Poland. The collection consists of a wedding invitation for the wedding ceremony of Annie Kurtz and Herman Kresch, May 24, 1912; a Polish passport issued to Hyman Kresch in New York, 1921; a Certificate of Naturalization issued to Hyman Kresch, October 4, 1948; a letter written by Gitla Kersch Riss in Czortków, Poland to her brother Hyman Kresch in New York, dated February 1933; and a postcard written by Gitla Riss in Czortków to her brother Hyman Kresch, circa March-April 1940. The photographs include a photographic portrait of Sara Kresch in Rzeszów, Poland, undated; a photographic portrait of Izak Itche Kresch and Mindl Kresch in Przemyśl, Poland, undated; and a photograph of an unidentified relative in Germany, undated.
System of Arrangement
The Kresch family collection is arranged in a single series.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Holly Blum
People
- Kurz, Annie.
- Kresch, Hyman.
- Kresch, Sara.
- Kresch, Izak Itche.
- Kresch, Mindl.
- Kresch, Herman.
- Riss, Gitla Kresch.
Subjects
- Families.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Przemyśl (Poland)
- Rzeszów (Poland)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Chortkiv (Ukraine)
Genre
- Identification documents.
- Passport.
- Certificates.
- Photographs.
- Correspondence.
- Document
- Postcards.