Schiffmann and Fischer families collection

Identifier
irn84965
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.473.1
Dates
1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hannah Kesler

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Hannah Kesler.

Scope and Content

This collection includes a letter written by Max and Bernhard Schiffmann in the Dachau concentration camp to Olga Schiffmann (Max's wife), in German, on camp letterhead; Document for the release of Max Schiffmann from Buchenwald, dated February 22, 1939; two letters from Chaim Sharfstein in Staten Island to his cousin Max Schiffmann, September and November 1939, in Yiddish; Four photographs depicting Ewa Fischer (donor's late mother-in-law) who left Vienna on the Kindertransport; negative showing the department store of brothers Schiffmann in Vienna before the war; Olga Schiffmann (b. September 3, 1887) was deported to Minsk June 2, 1942. Paula Lazar Fischer (Ewa's mother, b. October 26, 1896) was deported to Minsk on August 17, 1942 and murdered upon arrival; a note probably written by Mrs. Eva E. Kessler (born Fischer) is illegible.

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.