Overview
- Description
- This collection includes a letter written by Max and Bernhard Schiffmann in the Dachau concentration camp to Olga Schiffmann (Max's wife), in German, on camp letterhead; Document for the release of Max Schiffmann from Buchenwald, dated February 22, 1939; two letters from Chaim Sharfstein in Staten Island to his cousin Max Schiffmann, September and November 1939, in Yiddish; Four photographs depicting Ewa Fischer (donor's late mother-in-law) who left Vienna on the Kindertransport; negative showing the department store of brothers Schiffmann in Vienna before the war; Olga Schiffmann (b. September 3, 1887) was deported to Minsk June 2, 1942. Paula Lazar Fischer (Ewa's mother, b. October 26, 1896) was deported to Minsk on August 17, 1942 and murdered upon arrival; a note probably written by Mrs. Eva E. Kessler (born Fischer) is illegible.
- Date
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inclusive:
1936-1939
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hannah Kesler
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
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.
Keywords & Subjects
- Corporate Name
- Dachau (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Hannah Kesler.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:43:16
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn84965
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