Wolf Lewkowicz collection

Identifier
irn504402
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0099
  • RG-10.149
Dates
1 Jan 1922 - 31 Dec 1995, 1 Jan 1922 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

23

13 sound cassettes,

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Wolf Lewkowicz (b. 1886, Poland) died in Treblinka concentration camp in 1943.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Scope and Content

Contains an introduction to the collection and other information about the Lewkowicz, Lewin, and Zissman families; approximately 178 letters and post cards written by Wolf Lewkowicz and his family to Sol J. Zissman, Lewkowicz's nephew, of Chicago, Ill., from 1922 to 1939, containing information about Lewkowicz family matters and information about the situation for Jews in Poland at that time; and 13 sound recordings, made from circa 1955 to 1965, of Sol Zissman reading the letters in Yiddish. Letter 179, written by Aaron Chmielnicki Carmi in 1945, describes Wolf Lewkowicz's last days before he was deported from Opoczno, Poland, to Treblinka where he died in 1943. A photogaph of the Wolf Lewkowicz and his immediate family is included in file unit *01.

System of Arrangement

Organized in the following order: File unit *01, Introduction and Lewkowicz, Lewin, and Zissman family information; file unit *02, Wolf Lewkowicz letters; and file unit *03, Sound recordings of Wolf Lewkowicz letter Arrangement is chronological with some discrepancies

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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.