Pollatschek family collection

Identifier: irn551456
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Renata Polt.

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The collection consists of a toy bus and correspondence relating to the Pollatschek family in Czechoslovakia before the Holocaust, and in Czechoslovakia, Cuba, and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

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Pollatschek family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn532688
- English
- 1939-1974
- folders 11
- Updated 7 months ago
The Pollatschek family papers consists of correspondence, chiefly from Henriette Pollatschek, written circa 1939-1942, and sent from Czechoslovakia to her son, Friedrich, and his family, first in Cuba and then the United States. The collection also includes correspondence from Friedrich Pollaschek (later Polt), and various immigration authorities, banks, shipping lines, and others, in his efforts to help his mother and sister emigrate from German-occupied Czechoslovakia. While most of the letters from Henriette are addressed to the family of her son, Friedrich Pollatschek, some are also add...
Wooden toy bus owned by a Czechoslovakian Jewish girl
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn551457
- English
- a: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) b: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Wooden toy bus given to Renate Pollatschek (later Renata Polt) by her parents in the 1930s when they were living in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia. The bus is a German toy with “Eilkraftwagen” painted on the sides, rather than “Autobus.” The new word was likely created by the Nazi party to replace foreign words like “Autobus” in the German language. Renate lived with her parents, Friedrich and Elisabeth, her older brother, Hans, and her paternal grandmother, Henriette. She was less than a year old when Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. Friedrich, was concerne...

Pollatschek family collection

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Pollatschek family papers

Wooden toy bus owned by a Czechoslovakian Jewish girl