Rabbi Solomon Usher papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Jerome M. Schwartzman
The collection was donated to the Museum in January 2020 by Jerome Schwartzman and Esther Fred Schwartzman, the son and widow of Rabbi Solomon Usher Schwartzman.
Scope and Content
Consists of postcards received by Rabbi Salomon Usher Schwartzman while living as a refugee in Kobe, Japan. The postcards were authored by Rabbi Schwartzman’s siblings, Laja Kac and Chaim Schwarzman, of Siedlce, Poland, and date to the year 1941. Another postcard is attributed to a friend, Jochiel Bauman. The collection also includes three photographs depicting Rabbi Schwartzman and others in Japan.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Subjects
- Kobe-shi (Japan)
Genre
- Document