Schildkraut family papers

Document | Accession Number: 2019.256.1

Letters and postcards between Joseph Schildkraut in Cincinnati, Ohio and his sister Lea Schildkraut, from Tarnów Poland during the Holocaust. Included are postcards purchased on his exit from Poland, via Italy, Spain, and Panama, as well as a photo album, with press clippings, that he created while in Panama awaiting immigration to the United States, and a 1943 photograph with family in Covington, KY.

Genre/Form: Postcards.
Extent: 1 folder
1 oversize box
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Steven Lee Katz

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Geographic Name: Panama.
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Steven Lee Katz.
Additional Accession Number: 2019.354
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: Restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2020-10-30 12:01:09
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