Ergas family collection

Identifier
irn47117
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.364.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Ladino
  • Greek
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47117

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Shaari Ergas

Shaari Ergas donated her father-in-law's letters to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.

Scope and Content

Consists of one folder of correspondence sent from Albert Ergas in Thessaloniki, Greece, to his brother, Jack Ergas, in New York City, between 1945-1946. In the letters, written in Ladino, Mr. Ergas describes the family's experiences during the Holocaust which most of the family spent in hiding, the economic and emotional situation of the Jews in post-war Greece, and the family's business and property. Includes photographs of the Ergas family building and a restitution claim put forward by Jack Ergas for the family's property in Turkey which was confiscated during the war.

People

  • Ergas, Albert.
  • Ergas, Jack.

Subjects

  • Restitution--Turkey.
  • Istanbul (Turkey)
  • Thessalonikē (Greece)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Greece.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.