Herenfeld family papers

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2012.161.1

Overview

Description: Correspondence: from the Herenfeld and Nisenholc families in the Warsaw ghetto to Bela Genya Yosovitz in Buffalo, NY, in Polish and in Yiddish, dated 1940 and 1941. Correspondence includes letters sent to Bela and Natan Yosovitz from David Herenfeld (brother of Bela) and from Chaim Nisenholc. Letter: addressed to Cpl. Richard Connuck (donor's father) in the US Army, from the Central Jewish Committee in Warsaw, dated March 20, 1946, notifying him that Leizer Herenfeld is not listed as a survivor; Photographs: images of of Lejzor Herenfeld in Warsaw, c. 1930 and of David Herenfeld, date unknown.
Date: inclusive: 1930-1946
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Connuck, Yosovitz and Heller families. Donated by the Connuck, Yosovitz and Heller families in memory of Lejzor, Tubba, and David Herenfeld, their spouses, children, grandchildren, and extended families who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto or at Treblinka in the years 1941-1942

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Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by the Connuck, Yosovitz and Heller families.