Breznik and Zylberglajt families papers

Identifier
irn562899
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.563.1
  • 2016.564
  • 2017.668
Dates
1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

box

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yoram Bar Gal In memory of the Zylberglajt Family and the Breznik Family

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Yoram Bar Gal.

Scope and Content

Contains letters and postcards from the Zylberglajt family in Warsaw, where Jankel Zylberglajt (donor’s paternal grandfather) was an owner of toy company at 51 Nowolipie Street; dated: 1936-1941 in Yiddish and Polish; other letters and postcards are from Zeev Zylberglajt’s friends and relatives, before the war and during the war from USSR and after the war from Poland, Germany and Cyprus. Also includes photographs depicting the Breznik family in Boremel, and different friends Arie befriended in the Feladafing DP camp and in the Cyprus transit camp. Among the survivors was Leon Zylberglajt (donor’s paternal uncle); Dawid Bajtsztok (paternal cousin) and Arie Breznik (maternal cousin).

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