Julius Messer collection
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fred A. Brill
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Mr. Fred A. Brill
Scope and Content
Collection of correspondence (postcards and envelopes) and birth certificate relating to Julius Messer (donor's cousin) who fled from Krakow, Poland to Shanghai, China during the Holocaust; Newspaper from Polish Jewish refugee community in Shanghai, dated December 1945. An accretion including: photographic portraits of Julius Messer and his wife Irena (nee Cynamon); photographic print of the Board of Directors retirement luncheon for Superintendance LTD, UK of which Julius Messer was Chairman of the Board; certified copies of the death certificate of Julius and Irena Messer; certificates regarding Julius Messer's employment and residency; and Julius Messer's birth certificate were added to the collection in August 2013.
Subjects
- Shanghai (China).
Genre
- Certificates.
- Newspapers.
- Postcards.
- Birth certificates.
- Document
- Photographs.
- Letters.