Rose Katz collection

Identifier
irn559806
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.601.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Carl and Morton Katz

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Morton Katz, son of Rose Katz.

Scope and Content

Papers, documents, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Rose Reichman Katz's (donor's mother) extended family in Raslavice, Slovakia before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes correspondence received by Rose from her family; pre-war photographic images; and receipts dating from the 1930s documenting monies sent from Rose and her husband Milton to her mother and father Hermine and Wolf Reichman and their extended family in Slovakia. Documents indicate Rose's siblings were deported in 1942 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland where they are presumed to have perished.

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