Zonligt family collection

Identifier: irn564900
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn564900

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Natanya Sortland, the granddaughter of Gerard Samuel Zonligt.

Scope and Content

Correspondence, postcards, photographs, pocket mirror, wooden cradle, diary, poesie book, reports, naturalization documents, published works, awards and other original materials pertaining to the Zonligt and Blitz families of the Netherlands, Belgium, and later of the United States. Gerard Samuel Zonligt's postwar work as an U.N.R.R.A. DP camp administor is also covered therein.

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1. United States (4)
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1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (4)

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Wooden cradle
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn595096
- English
- overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) | Depth: 17.250 inches (43.815 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Painted wooden cradle given to Deena Zonligt Sortland (donor's mother) by her father Gerard Zonligt who received it while he wasn an UNRRA administrator at the Wels DP camp in Austria.
Zonligt family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn627898
- English
- 1916-1947
- box book enclosures oversize folder 1 3 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The Zonligt family papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Zonligt family from Belgium and their Blitz relatives from the Netherlands, their migration to France in 1940, their immigration to the United States in 1940 and 1941, and Gerard Zonligt’s work as an UNRRA officer at the Wels displaced persons camp. Biographical materials include identification papers, banking records, ration cards, and immigration records documenting the Blitz and Zonligt families in Belgium, their migration to France in 1940, and their immigration to the United Stat...
Hand mirror
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn627904
- English
- overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
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- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn627905
- English
- overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago

Zonligt family collection

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Wooden cradle

Zonligt family papers

Hand mirror

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