Winofker family collection

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Winofker family collection 

folder 1 

Consists of correspondence, documents, and identity cards related to the lives of Rachela Winofker and her sons, Mendel and Szloma, in the Foehrenwald and Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camps in 1947-1948. Includes correspondence, in Yiddish, from family members in the United States, and documentation collected in preparation for immigration to the United States, including official immigration identity cards. Also includes a official photograph of Hitler and other Nazi officials at an unknown event in 1936 and a note from Menachem Begin to Luba Gurdus in 1978, thanking her for sending a copy of her book.