Violet Herkovits Mainzer collection

Identifier: irn608269
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Bruce Mainzer.

Scope and Content

Documents, photographs and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Rabbi Boril Herschkovics who immigrated to the United States in the late 1920s ahead of his immediate family. Documents include recommendations of employment for Boril as well as later efforts in 1941, of his daughter Alice, already in the United States, to bring over her sister and mother Edith and Rose, who eventually joined Alice and Violet (who arrived in 1939) and Boril in the United States. Also includes the oral testimony of Iby Mainzer and Martin Mainzer.

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Oral history interview with Iby Mainzer and Martin Mainzer
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607595
- English
- 3 sound cassettes (60 min.), analog. 1 digital file,
- Updated 7 months ago
Violet Herkovits Mainzer collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn94996
- English
- folders 2
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains documents, photographs and correspondence regarding the experiences of Rabbi Boril Herschkovics, who immigrated to the United States in the late 1920s ahead of his immediate family. Documents include recommendations of employment for Boril. Also includes correspondence with organizations including the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Society regarding the efforts of his daughter Alice Herst to arrange for the immigration of Edith and Rose Herskovits, then in Hungary, to join the rest of the family in the United States.

Violet Herkovits Mainzer collection

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Oral history interview with Iby Mainzer and Martin Mainzer

Violet Herkovits Mainzer collection