Schiller and Binder families collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.365.1

Overview

Description: Contains letters written by the Schiller and Binder families in Kitsman (Cotman) and Chernowitz, Romania, to their children Sara Schiller (donor's mother) and Moshe Schiller, and Shmuel Binder (donor's father) and Arie Binder in Palestine. The Schiller family from Kitsman and the Binder family from Chernowitz were deported in the fall of 1941 to Transnistria. According to testimonies, the Schiller family was thrown off the barge in the middle of the Dniestr River and drowned. The Binder family was deported to Transnistria at the same time, and no one survived.
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Devora Lissack Binder

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Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Devora Lissack Binder.