Overview
- Description
- Consists of various personal documents, correspondence, notes and other mementos of a Jewish family from the circles of the assimilated intelligentsia. The collection is divided into four series. The first series contains literary works, mainly by Juliusz Feldhorn, the poetry of Stella Landy and memoirs of Maria Krawczyk which contains information about the family’s fate, and photographs. The second series, which is the largest, contains personal documents of the Feldhorn family’s members: Mojżesz, Michał, Juliusz, Stella, Maria and Cecylia, as well as Maria Krawczyk, Marcel Schauer, and Maurycy Herman. The third series contains correspondence of various kind, mainly photocopies, and handwritten copies. The fourth series includes miscellaneous records, including several originals, with the only memento of Rudolf Feldhorn: his notes from his math exercises and a unique agenda of 1939 which belonged to Mojżesz Michał Fedlhorn, with some notes about the fate of the family during September-November 1939.
- Alternate Title
- Legacy of family Feldhorn
- Date
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inclusive:
1896-1991
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Collection Creator
- Feldhorn family
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Baptismal certificates. Birth certificates. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence. Diplomas. Drawings. Identification cards. Memories. Passports. Photographs. Poems. Questionnaires.
- Extent
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1,552 digital images : PDF ; 244 MB.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in four series: 1. Literary Works and Photographs. 2. Personal Documents. 3. Correspondence. 4. Miscellaneous Records.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Publication or copying of more than several documents for a third party requires the permission of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny imienia Emanuela Ringelbluma.
- Copyright Holder
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- From the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Sygn. 368. The collection was donated to ŻIH by Maria Krawczyk, a daughter of Juliusz Feldhorn, in 1991. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from ŻIH via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Division in Dec. 2012.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 21:59:29
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