Overview
- Description
- The Alfred and Emma Pisko papers include birth certificates, United Kingdom certificates of registration, travel documents, and a marriage certificate for Alfred and Emma Pisko as well as a photograph of the couple in 1980. The registration certificates indicate that Alfred and Emma were exempt from internment because they were refugees from Nazi oppression. Additional military and immigration records documenting Alfred Pisko include an enlistment attestation, service records (pay book, release book, record of service card), declaration of intention to become an American citizen, and certificate of naturalization. The papers also include a telegram announcing the death of Alfred’s mother.
- Date
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inclusive:
1938-1980
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dr. Maria Weissenberg Barrows
- Collection Creator
- Alfred Pisko
Emma Pisko - Biography
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Alfred Rudolph Pisko (1902-1990) was born in Vienna on November 1, 1902 to Adolf Pisko and Ida Weissenberg Pisko. He moved to the United Kingdom in May 1939. He served in the British Army in the Ancillary Military Police Corps and Royal Army Ordnance Corps from 1940-1945. He married Emma Heumann in 1940, and the couple immigrated to the United States in 1948.
Emma Heumann Pisko (1909-1980) was born on May 6, 1909 in Lechenich, Germany to Moritz Heumann and Henriette Vohs Heumann. Emma moved to the United Kingdom in July 1937. She married Alfred Pisko in 1940, and the couple immigrated to the United States in 1948.
Physical Details
- Extent
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3 folders
- System of Arrangement
- The Alfred and Emma Pisko papers are arranged as a single series.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jews--Germany--Lechenich. Jewish refugees--Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Geographic Name
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History. United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Personal Name
- Pisko, Alfred, 1902-1990. Pisko, Emma, 1909-1980.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Dr. Maria Weissenberg Barrows, cousin of Alfred and Emma Pisko, donated the Alfred and Emma Pisko papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018.
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- 2024-03-08 07:34:54
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Also in Alfred and Emma Heumann Pisko family collection
The collection consists of a Star of David badge, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Alfred Rudolph Pisko and his wife, Emma Heumann Pisko, and their families in Austria and Germany before the Holocaust, and the United Kingdom and the United States during and after the Holocaust.
Date: 1937-1980
Factory-printed Star of David badge acquired by an Austrian refugee
Object
Factory-printed Star of David badge worn by a relative of the donor between 1941 and 1945. On September 1, 1941, all Jews in the Reich six years of age or older were required to wear a badge, a yellow Star of David with a black-outline and the word “Jew” printed inside the star in German, to identify themselves. The badge was used to stigmatize and control the Jewish population. Prior to this large-scale decree, identification requirements for Jewish individuals varied by locality and administration. As Germany annexed territory, the same or similar decrees were enforced in other countries, resulting in the manufacture of similar badges with text in various languages. The badges specified in the decree were first produced by Berliner Fahnenfabrik Geitel & Co., a flag factory. They were distributed by government and police authorities at the cost of 10 Reichspfennig each (in France, they cost a textile ration coupon). Later, they were duplicated by other factories, such as De Nijverheid, a formerly Jewish-owned firm in the Netherlands that printed a large amount of Dutch language stars.
