Joseph Strip family collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the family of Joseph Strip.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of an armband, currency, flier, patches, correspondence, diaries, documents, memoirs, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Stripounsky (later Strip) family: Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel during the Holocaust when they fled Antwerp, Belgium, in May 1940 for France, and, after a year, for the United States, as well as for Joseph's US Army service in Germany beginning in 1944.
Genre
- Collection