Harold Minuskin family collection

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

Date: unavailable:
Geography: issue: Berlin (Germany)
received: Berlin (Germany)
Date: issue: 1923 January 01
received: approximately 1946
Geography: issue: Berlin (Germany)
received: Berlin (Germany)
Date: issue: 1908 February 07
received: approximately 1946
Geography: issue: Oberhausen-Rheinhausen (Germany)
Date: issue: 1923 August 10
received: approximately 1946
Geography: issue: Soviet Union
Date: issue: 1937
received: approximately 1946
Geography: issue: Soviet Union
Date: issue: 1937
received: approximately 1946
Date: interview: 1996 September 01
Date: publication/distribution: 1991
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