Harold Minuskin family collection
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of a billfold, currency, documents, oral history compact discs, photographs, and postcards relating to the experiences of Shlamke and Shanke Orlinsky Minuskin, their two young sons, Henikel (Harold) and Kalmanke, and their extended families in prewar Zhetel, Poland, in the Zhetel ghetto and the surrounding forests with the partisans during the Holocaust, and as refugees in Germany and then the United States after the war, and a billfold, day planner, and photographs relating to the experiences of Lew Minuskin who was in Siberia during the war.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012, 2013, and 2014 by Harold Minuskin.
- Date
- 1919-1990
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Berlin (Germany)
received: Berlin (Germany)
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1923 January 01
received: approximately 1946
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Berlin (Germany)
received: Berlin (Germany)
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1908 February 07
received: approximately 1946
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Oberhausen-Rheinhausen (Germany)
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1923 August 10
received: approximately 1946
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Soviet Union
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1937
received: approximately 1946
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Soviet Union
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issue:
1937
received: approximately 1946
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interview:
1996 September 01
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publication/distribution:
1991
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Record last modified: 2020-06-17 09:29:10
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Harold Minuskin: Soviet sound recordings
Recorded Sound | Accession Number: 2012.358 | RG Number: RG-91.0112
Minuskin family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.358.1
Light brown leather billfold used by a Polish Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.358.2
Weimar Germany Reichsbanknote, 1000 marks, kept by a Polish Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.358.3
Imperial Germany Reichsbanknote, 100 marks, kept by a Polish Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.358.4
Oberhausen, Germany, emergency currency, 5 million marks, kept by a Polish Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.358.5
Soviet Union, 1 chervonets note, kept by a Polish Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.358.6
Soviet Union, 10 chervonets note, kept by a Polish Jewish refugee to the US
Object | Accession Number: 2012.358.7
Oral history interview with Sonia Minuskin
Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.358.8 | RG Number: RG-50.748.0001
Holocaust survivors documentary "Our Town Zhetel"
Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.358.9 | RG Number: RG-50.748.0002