Overview
- Description
- Photocopy and translation of a letter written by Peretz Shkolnik in a displaced persons camp in Cremona, Italy, describing his family's persecutions and his wife's and son's murder during the Holocaust in Jody, Belarus, and other ghettos. Shkolnik survived the Holocaust in hiding near Jody.
- Date
-
creation:
1946
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Susan Gottlieb
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Letters.
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Iody (Belarus) Cremona (Italy)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Susan Gottlieb donated the Peretz Shkolnik letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:29:38
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Also in Shkolnik family collection
Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of the Shkolnik family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Ida Shkolnik testimony
Document
Contains information about persecution of Ida Shkolnik in a ghetto in occupied Poland; her escape to a forest; her marriage to Morris Shkolnik; their life together as refugees; their immigration to the United States; and their new life in America.
