Donald Norton Pitts collection

Overview

Collection Summary

The collection documents the experiences of Donald Norton Pitts, who served as a foreign service officer with the State Department in Warsaw, Poland in 1950. Included are notes, reports, and writings, primarily about the political climate in Poland; diary; correspondence; identification card; clipping; metal dish; and negatives taken while Donald was stationed there. Also included are copy negatives and prints documenting atrocities against Jews in Poland during the Holocaust.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Julie Pitts, the daughter of Donald Norton Pitts.