David Mentken family collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Robert Mentken.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a portrait drawing, a silhouette, a shop sign, three pairs of capmaker’s scissors, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Salomon Mentkewicz, his family, and the Haar family before the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and Krakow, Poland, and to the emigration of David and Regina Haar Mentkewicz (later Mentken) and their sons, Edgar and Robert, to the United States in 1938.
Genre
- Collection