Piera and Meyer Solender papers
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Meyer Solender
- Piera Solender
Biographical History
Piera Solender (1916-1991) was born Piera del Strologo in Livorno, Italy. The family closed their fabric stores and relocated to Milan in 1941. In August 1943, their apartment was destroyed while they were on vacation. Her brother and his family, one of her sisters, and their father survived the rest of the war in Switzerland. Piera, her sister Nilda, and their mother traveled south and were sheltered by Gigi Corleone near Senigallia. They returned to Milan in September 1945, and Piera met Meyer Solender in 1948.
Meyer (Majer) Solender (1919-1976) was born in Tarnów, Poland, survived five concentration camps including Mauthausen. He married Piera del Strologo in 1949, and they immigrated to the United States in 1950, settling in Philadelphia.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Bella Forman, the Solender’s daughter, donated the Piera and Meyer Solender papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993. The accession formerly cataloged as 1994.A.0134 has been incorporated into this collection.
Scope and Content
The Piera and Meyer Solender papers consist of two identification cards for Meyer Solender (a Jewish Community of Milan identification card and a reproduction of a Provisional identification card for civilian internee of Mauthausen) and a brief autobiographical testimony describing Piera Solender’s life.
System of Arrangement
The Piera and Meyer Solender papers are arranged as a single series: I. Piera and Meyer Solender, 1945, 1980
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jews--Italy--Livorno.
- Senigallia (Italy)
- Holocaust survivors--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Jewish refugees--Italy--Senigallia.
- Livorno (Italy)
- Jews--Poland--Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
Genre
- Document