Charna Reina Koryski correspondence

Identifier
irn520950
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.231
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1940
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Esther L. Herbert, grandaughter of Eva Koryski Hurwitz (Charna Reina Koryski's sister in law) donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Aug.14, 2003.

Scope and Content

A series of letters written in Yiddish on small white pieces of paper detailing the pre-war life of Charna Reina Koryski of Vilnus, Poland. She wrote to her widowed sister-in-law (Eva Koryski Hurwitz) of Rochester, NY about her children and the poverty and sickness the family was enduring. She thanked those in America for sending money and clothing but continued to stress the poverty they all endure. The series concludes with a letter from Rochester marked "return to sender" with a Nazi stamp. This letter, from Eva Koryski Hurwitz, Charna's expressed concern that they had not heard from the family in Vilnus for a number of months. Accompanied by English language translations of each letter.

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.