Letter : paper : ink : pink ; Ht: 14,5 cm x W: 21,6 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
August 04, 1926
Physical Condition
Good
Language
Yiddish
Notes
one page folded virtically in two with writing on font and back. Narrative: This letter was sent by Szejna Miszkinski (donor's mother) to her sister Sara Kreider who had immigrated to the USA on October 21, 1924 aboard the S.S Olympic. When the Germans invaded their hometown of Sejny (in Poland, on the border with Lithuania), the Miszkinskis (mother Szejna and father Joshua) were deported to Lithuania and later murdered in 1941.