Distenfeld family collection

Identifier
irn725311
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2022.160.1
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1957
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
  • Italian
  • English
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

oversize folder

1

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fred Distenfeld

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022 by Fred Distenfeld, the son of Joseph and Matilde Goldwurm Distenfeld

Scope and Content

The collection consists of Joseph Distenfeld and Matilde Goldwurm’s tenaim (July 21, 1940) from Lvov, Poland (now Lʹviv, Ukraine), and ketubah (March 17, 1941). There are a range of postwar identity documents and emigration papers in Italian, English, and Hebrew, the bulk of which are from the family’s time in Milan, Italy. These include their son’s, Efraim (Fred), birth certificate There is some correspondence from their time in Italy, as well as the United States, where the family settled. Also included are some of Joseph’s education documents from pre-and-postwar.

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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.