Katz family collection

Identifier
irn565701
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.660.1
Dates
1 Jan 1934 - 31 Dec 1943
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish.
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn565701

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sharon and Daniel Prober In loving memory of the Katz family from Naumiestis, Lithuania

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Sharon and Daniel Prober. Sharon Prober is the granddaughter of Josel and Sheine Katz.

Scope and Content

Contains letters and postcards sent by Josel and Sheine Katz (donor’s paternal grandparents) in Naumiestis, Lithuania, to their sons Eliahu Arie Katz and Louis Katz (donor's father), in the United States. Also includes correspondence from Louis’s siblings, Zlata, Mendel and Enoch, to their brother and his family. The last postcard was written on March 16, 1943, by the youngest sister of Louis Katz, Rivka (or Riva) Katz, who was in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan; Rivka was the only member of the family in Lithuania who survived, and she joined her brother in the United States in 1948.

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.