Morris Kopels papers

Identifier
irn507317
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.A.0288
  • RG-19.056
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn507317

Extent and Medium

folders

4

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received these papers from Morris Kopels on Nov. 3, 1998.

Scope and Content

Contains two copies of a songbook from the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp which were part of the publication, "zamlung fun katset un geto lider," issued in 1946 by the Central Jewish Committee, Bergen Belsen and the same collection also appeared as an edition of the DP periodical "Undzer Sztyme." The papers also include a photocopy of a note to Morris Kopels' aunt, Sonya Kusevitsky, written when Pte A. Dean Brust entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The materials date from 1945 to 1946.

System of Arrangement

Organized in two series: 1. Songbooks; 2. Letter

People

  • Kusevitsky, Sonya.
  • Brust, Dean A.
  • Schersnevski, Faigle.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Refugee camps--Germany--Belsen.
  • Refugees--Germany--Belsen.

Genre

  • Document
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