Franz Goldberger postcard
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Overview
- Description
- 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
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creation:
1939 July 17
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nina Pohl
- Collection Creator
- Franz Goldberger
- Biography
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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.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Postcards.
- Extent
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1 folder
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- Conditions on Access
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- Conditions on Use
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Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Nina Pohl.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:09:12
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514861
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