Gluck family collection

Identifier
irn713098
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Sherwin Gluck, son of Irving Gluck.

Scope and Content

Documents, datebooks, correspondence, V-mails, photograph albums, loose photos, maps, scrip, souvenir materials (including a "Heidelberg" letter opener), notebooks, reparations and restitution papers related to Irving Gluck and his family; also includes a wooden box made by a German POW who he was guarding; Irving Gluck's embroidered tefillin pouch and pair of tefillin, a scroll of Esther, dog tags, two mezuzot, a US Army jacket, an army mess cup (with personal inscriptions), an army duffel bag, medals and insignias, and pieces of Irving's broken eyeglasses from the Battle of Anzio; Irving's brother Herman Gluck's dog tags, his sisters Marie Gluck and Hermine (Gluck) Solomon's blue star flag, and Marie Gluck's memoir. Additional items include an interview with Irving Gluck, a recording of a 1994 survivor reunion in Israel featuring survivor testimony, a recording of an Italian radio interview with him, prayer books, a Hungarian-English dictionary, a Hungarian-English phrase book, a prayer book and haggadah for the US Armed Forces, and German army cap and shirt patches. The collection also features English translations from Hungarian of letters, V-mails and documents.

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.