Joseph Shein collection

Identifier
irn514455
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.92
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514455

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Joseph Shein donated the poem to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Jul. 15, 2003. The rest of the collection was added in Dec. 2003. The books were transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library in Jan. 2004.

Scope and Content

Contains one copyprint of a poem, written in Yiddish, entitled "The shtetl is burning," by Mordechai Gebertig; photograph of the common grave, in Czȩstochowa, Poland, commemorating the deaths of Jewish resistance fighters in March 1943; photograph of message written on a wall by a resistance fighter in Czȩstochowa immediately before his death; one book regarding the Czȩstochowa ghetto, written by Liber Brenner; and one bound copy of "The story of our family," by Yitzhak Shein.

Genre

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.