Wolf Lewkowicz collection
Extent and Medium
folders
23
13 sound cassettes,
Creator(s)
- Wolf Lewkowicz
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
People
- Chmielnicki family.
- Lewkowicz family.
- Zissman family.
- Lewin family.
- Zissman, Sol.
- Lewkowicz, Wolf, 1886-
Subjects
- Jews--Poland--Łódź.
- Jews--Poland--Końskie (Kielce)
- Jews--Illinois--Chicago.
- Jews--Poland--Opoczno.
Genre
- Document
- Group portraits.
- Letters.