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Franz Goldberger postcard

Document | Accession Number: 2000.569.1

Consists of a typed postcard, dated 17 July 1939 and addressed to the Beth Sholom synagogue in San Francisco, from Professor Franz Goldberger in Vienna, Austria requesting acknowledgement of previous correspondence in which he asked for a namesake willing to supply an affidavit of support for immigration to the United States.

Date
creation:  1939 July 17
Language
English
Genre/Form
Postcards.
Extent
1 folder
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nina Pohl

About This Document

Document Creator
Franz Goldberger
Biography
Franz Goldberg (b. 1899) was born in Saaz (present day Žatec, Czech Republic). He was a professor at a business school in Vienna, Austria. By 1939 he had lost his job and tried unsuccessfully to emigrate from Austria to the United States. He was deported from Vienna to the Izbica ghetto in Poland and then deported to the Majdanek concentration camp in May 1942. He likely perished there on 20 August 1942.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Nina Pohl.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use
 
Record last modified: 2020-04-16 14:07:04
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