Overview
- Description
- Contains a Red Cross letter sent by Grete Werner in Palestine to her sister Lotti Bieber in Piaski, Poland, dated August 27, 1942, and returned with annotation: "Address moved away"; a letter written by Hilde Petzal in Piaski, probably in 1940, describing the terrible conditions the family was in after their deportation from Stettin in February 1940; letters written by the Petzal family in Piaski to their cousins in Washington, DC, dated c. 1940; letters written by Ingeborge Petzal in Germany to her brother Horst in Palestine, dated c. 1939; an identification certificate issued to Ingeborg Petzal in Bern, Switzerland on August 29, 1945; and family portraits of the Petzal family in Arnswalde, Germany, dated c. 1930.
- Date
-
creation:
1925-1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rachel Moses
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Letters. Photograph.
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
- Copyright Holder
- Mrs. Rachel Moses
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Piaski (Lublin, Poland)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Rachel Moses.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:50:44
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn36119
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