Mozis family collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nicole Mozis
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Madame Nicole Mozis
Scope and Content
Correspondence to Marthé and Silvio Mozis (donor’s parents) in France, from Marthé’s uncle Julius Kauffman and aunt [married to Marthé’s maternal uncle Nestor] Charlotte Kauffman. Correspondence dates 1941 and then 1945-1947. The 1941 letters ask that Marthé consider moving her family to the United States and implores her not to return to Paris. The postwar letters express happiness that Marthé’s immediate family [husband Silvio and children Claude and Nicole] are safe, unknown information about Marthé’s parents, Rosa and Francois Kauffman as well as other friends and family. In English and French. Rosa and Francois were deported to Auschwitz where they are presumed to have died.
Genre
- Document