Overview
- Description
- Prewar photographs taken in Kavarsk, Lithuania by the town photographer, Beile Delechky. Twenty nine journals/diaries, most of which were written in Yiddish. Documents, including Beile Delechky's report card and diploma from the Yiddish Folk-Schul, and a U.S. visa and Lithuanian passport with Nazi border control stamps showing her transit to the Netherlands during Kristallnacht.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Frank Buonagurio.
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence
- Extent
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3 boxes
- System of Arrangement
- Collection is unarranged.
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.
- Copyright Holder
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2023 by Frank Buonagurio, son-in-law of Beile Delechky.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-05-22 13:06:02
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Also in Beile Delechky collection
The collection consists primarily of prewar photographs taken in Kavarsk, Lithuania by the town photographer, Beile Delechky, as well as an autograph book and a publication.
Book, Słownik polityczno-ekonomiczny
Object
Publication (Poliṭish-eḳonomish ṿerṭerbukh = Słownik polityczno-ekonomiczny / tsuzamengeshṭelṭ fun A. Mab. Warszawa : E. Gitlin, 1929) related to the experiences of Beile Delechky, the Kavarsk, Lithuania town photographer. She emigrated to the United States in 1938.
