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Larry Shalit (Schalyt-Tikotzky) family archive

Document | Accession Number: 2015.603.1

Date: 1918-1968 (inclusive)
Language: English
Russian
Yiddish
French
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Extent: 1 box
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nancy Ann Silver Shalit

Document Creator: Shalit family
Biography: Alexander Shalit (born Alexander Schalyt) was born on 13 August 1895 in Vitebsk, Russia (now Vitebsk, Belarus). He had at least one brother, Norman. His family immigrated to Białystok, Poland around 1900, and moved to the Free City of Danzig after World War I. He was a furrier by trade, and eventually moved to Berlin, Germany. Alexander married Sima Tikotzky (1898-1968), and their son Larry (1924-2009) was born on 22 October 1924. Disturbed by the rise of Nazism, the Shalits moved to Brussels, Belgium in 1933, and immigrated to the United States in 1934. They settled in Detroit, Michigan in 1935. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Shalits corresponded with other family members, including Sima’s relatives in the Tucker family (originally Tikotzky) in England and France. During World War II, Larry served in the United States Army from 1943-1946.
System of Arrangement: The collection is arranged as three series: Series 1: Biographical material, 1918-1968; Series 2: Immigration, 1921-1945; Series 3: Correspondence, 1928-1967.
Topical Term: Emigration and immigration--United States.
Emigration and immigration--Belgium.
Jewish businesspeople--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic Name: Berlin (Germany)
Brussels (Belgium)
Detroit (Mich.)
Personal Name: Shalit, Alexander, 1895-
Shalit, Sima, 1898-1968.
Shalit, Larry, 1924-2009.
Corporate Name: United States Army.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Gift of Nancy Ann Silver Shalit, 2015.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
: Record last modified: 2017-11-28 13:54:28
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