Peretz Shkolnik letter

Identifier
irn552743
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.423.1
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn552743

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Susan Gottlieb

Susan Gottlieb donated the Peretz Shkolnik letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016.

Scope and Content

Photocopy and translation of a letter written by Peretz Shkolnik in a displaced persons camp in Cremona, Italy, describing his family's persecutions and his wife's and son's murder during the Holocaust in Jody, Belarus, and other ghettos. Shkolnik survived the Holocaust in hiding near Jody.

Subjects

  • Jews--Belarus--Iody.
  • Holocaust victims.
  • Cremona (Italy)
  • Holocaust survivors--Correspondence.
  • Iody (Belarus)

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.

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