Schiller and Binder families collection

Identifier
irn76969
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.365.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn76969

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Devora Lissack Binder

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Devora Lissack Binder.

Scope and Content

Contains letters written by the Schiller and Binder families in Kitsman (Cotman) and Chernowitz, Romania, to their children Sara Schiller (donor's mother) and Moshe Schiller, and Shmuel Binder (donor's father) and Arie Binder in Palestine. The Schiller family from Kitsman and the Binder family from Chernowitz were deported in the fall of 1941 to Transnistria. According to testimonies, the Schiller family was thrown off the barge in the middle of the Dniestr River and drowned. The Binder family was deported to Transnistria at the same time, and no one survived.

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.