Rachel Levin collection

Identifier
irn531296
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.93.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn531296

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ronald Costell

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Ronald Costell, with an accretion added in 2017.

Scope and Content

Contains letters, with envelopes, from Rachel Levin and her daughter, Hannah Narwitch, in Raguva, Lithuania to Pesia Phyllis Levin Costell (donor's mother) in the United States. In the letters, Rachel describles her husband's (Moyshe Levin) illness and death, the progress of the war, and requested affidavits of support for the family ("kartechke"). Includes photographs which belonged to Phyllis Levin created c. 1941 in Raguva; Phyllis had left Lithuania 1928 for Canada and then came to the US in 1939.

Subjects

  • Lithuania.

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.