boxes 3
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Blanche Davids Gewirtz papers
Photographs, legal documents, and correspondence from donor's paternal uncle, Leo Davids, who immigrated to the United States and facilitated the donor's parents immigration to the US in 1938. Includes a second group of materials consisting of photos and papers belonging to donor's mother's grandmother Fanny Kaufman, and her parents Bernard and Pauline Fischer. A majority of the donor's extended family on both sides perished in the Auschwitz and Sobibor concentration camps in 1942 and 1943.
Copyright Holder: Blanche Gewirtz