Znamirowski family papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ira and Kayla Zames
Gift of Kayla and Ira Zames, 2012.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, photographs (4), and documents, related to Mendel Znamirowski and his extended family. Includes postcards sent to Znamirowski in New York, from his mother and others still living in Warsaw, including postcards and letters sent from the Warsaw Ghetto (dated 1939-1941). Also includes a booklet recording the marriage of Mendel and Chaja Znamirowski in 1930, the birth of their son Israel in 1935, and documents pertaining to the Znamirowskis' arrival in New York, 1939-1940.
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Warsaw Ghetto (Warsaw, Poland).
Genre
- Letters.
- Postcards.
- Document