Gladys Grantz passport
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Gladys Grantz
Biographical History
Gladys Grantz was born Gizela Kirscher (later Grantzova) on September 16, 1914 in Czechoslovakia. Gladys had three siblings Karol, Andor, and Zoltan. Karol Kirscher joined either the British Army or Navy before the Nazis rise to power. Gladys’ father, Jacob (Yaakov) Kirscher owned a lumberyard in Hungary. At some point, he burnt down the lumberyard and was killed by the Nazis as a result. Andor and Zoltan joined the Hungarian underground resistance. All three of Gladys’ siblings survived the war and immigrated to Israel. In 1938 Gladys married Meyer Grantz (her cousin) and later that same year she joined him in the United States. They had two children, Linda E. Roberts (née Grantz, b. July 5, 1939) and Carl Grantz (b. July 10, 1942).
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Carl Grantz
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Carl Grantz donated the Gladys Grantz passport to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019.
Scope and Content
A Czechoslovakian passport issued to Gladys Grantz, 1938-1939.
System of Arrangement
This is a single item.
People
- Grantz, Glady, 1914-?
Subjects
- Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Document
- Passport.