Benjamin Mintz collection

Identifier
irn502131
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.A.0016
Dates
1 Jan 1943 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
  • Hebrew
  • English
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502131

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • COHASCO Inc.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives acquired this collection from COHASCO, a phone in catalog for historical documents and desirable collectibles in January 1999.

Scope and Content

Contains a collection of documents from Rabbi Benjamin Mintz (later Benjamin Minister), including notes in 1943 and 1945 regarding a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen; a Union of Czechoslovakia certificate indicating that a refugee is in Hungary; a February 1944 postcard from a refugee in Iran confirming the receipt of a food package from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint); a message from a Budapest survivor sent through HICEM to family members in May 1946; a certificate for a displaced Jewish person traveling to Lithuania in August 1944; and a Red Cross leaflet about tracing of persons.

Genre

  • Document
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