Overview
- Description
- Contains two letters written by Dr. Jacob Tombak (donor's grand uncle), who was a child psychiatrist in Warsaw, Poland, to his sister, Lillie (donor's grandmother), in which he describes his many efforts to obtain a US visa. Dr. Tombak would later be in the Warsaw ghetto, and he did not survive.
- Date
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1939
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Shari Feller Lella
Physical Details
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Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Shari Feller Lella, grand niece of Dr. Jacob Tombak.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:28:03
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