Overview
- Description
- The Wolf and Gidanskis letters consist of letters written in Yiddish between December 1938 and April 1941 in Lithuanian. One letter was written by Yitzhak Zev Wolf and eleven letters by Josef Gidanskis to his niece, Esther Golde. In the letters, Mr. Gidanskis discusses pre-war Jewish life in Lithuania and alludes to the news he is hearing about the Holocaust.
- Date
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inclusive:
1938-1941
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tahma Metz
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Wolf and Gidanskis letters are arranged in 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--Lithuania. Jews--Lithuania--History--20th century.
- Geographic Name
- Lithuania.
- Personal Name
- Wolf, Yitzhak Zev. Gidanskis, Josef. Golde, Esther.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Tahma Metz donated the Wolf and Gidanskis letters to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:44:41
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39587
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