Schulhof family collection

Schulhof family collection 

Correspondence, documents, photographs, album, and printed material, related to the history of the families of Joseph and Charlotte (nee Poras) Schulhof, and their son, Peter, originally of Prague, Czechoslovakia, documenting their emigration in 1940, following the German occupation of their homeland, and their time living as refugees in Shanghai and Tianjin (Tientsin), China, from 1940-1948, prior to their immigration to the United States. Also includes photographs (8), from family album of Peter Schulhof, that were sent subsequent to the initial shipment, depicting Schulhof, his parents, and other family members in pre-World War II Europe, on their voyage to China in 1940, and in China between 1940 and 1943.