Mozis family collection

Identifier
irn50673
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.70.1
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • French
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

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

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