United Kletzker Relief papers
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Marjorie Nissen sent this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via her nephew, Stephen Feinberg of the Education Division. There are some family photographs in the Photo Archives. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives transferred a black and white photograph and a black and white picture postcard in April 2000.
Scope and Content
The collection contains one letter from the United Kletzker Relief asking for the donation of clothing, three United Kletzker Relief booklets, a black and white photograph of the Arrangement Committee of the Kletzker United Relief (1936), and a black and white picture postcard (1932) of Stephen Feinbergand Marjorie Nissen's family members standing next to the tombstone of Yitzhak Moshe, son of Yaakov Kapol. The United Kletzker Relief, composed of those American Jews originally from Kletzk, reorganized themselves to assist survivors of Nazi atrocities. They formed the Independent Kletzker Society, Kletzker Young Men's Benevolent Association, Lodge 419, Jewish People's Fraternal order, Kletzker Ladies Society, Kletzker Young Ladies Society.
Genre
- Document