Overview
- Description
- Contains a photograph as well as a letter and envelope (both laminated), addressed from Enrique (Herszek) Kagan, a Jewish refugee in Argentina, to his mother, Feiga Kagan, in Ostrolenka, Poland, sent August 29, 1939, but returned to Mr. Kagan in Argentina. The envelope contains a postmark from the German "Devisenschutz Kommando" in Warsaw.
- Date
-
creation:
1939
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Shula Hamilton
- Collection Creator
- Herszek Kagan
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photograph. Letters.
- Extent
-
1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The collection is arranged as a single series.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Refugees, Jewish--Argentina.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Inherited by Shula Hamilton after Herszek Kagan's death. Donated to the USHMM in 1996 by Shula Hamilton.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-04-01 11:42:15
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Contains a photograph as well as a letter and envelope (both laminated), addressed from Enrique (Herszek) Kagan, a Jewish refugee in Argentina, to his mother, Feiga Kagan, in Ostrolenka, Poland, sent August 29, 1939, but returned to Mr. Kagan in Argentina. The envelope contains a postmark from the German "Devisenschutz Kommando" in Warsaw. Also contains two examples of Polish currency from 1931. Written by Herszek Kagan (donor's father) to his mother in occupied Poland, August 1939.
Poland, 20 zloty note
Object
A twenty zloty note mailed by a Jewish immigrant in Argentina to his mother in Poland, who perished during the Holocaust.
Poland, 20 zloty note
Object
A twenty zloty note mailed by a Jewish immigrant in Argentina to his mother in Poland who perished in the Holocaust.