Helen Fruchter collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Helen Fruchter
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Helen Fruchter.
Scope and Content
Collection of postcards and envelopes written and sent from Abram (Helen Fruchter's maternal brother) and Szprinca Szlewin in Warsaw, Poland. All but one envelope dated 1940 and 1941 and last postcard dated 9/2/1941 censored, received by donor's parents in Brooklyn. Photographs of Abram and Szprinca and their three children, Zelman and Zelig (youngest son's name unknown), all of whom perished, according to eye witness testimony given to Yad Vashem, in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942; in German and last postcard in Polish.
Subjects
- Warsaw (Poland)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Correspondence.
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