Dr. Ignaz Zollschan

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Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Postcard : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Red, Green ; Ht: 13 cm x W: 9 cm
Date
February 12, 1913
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Postcard : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Red, Green ; Ht: 13 cm x W: 9 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
February 12, 1913
Physical Condition
Poor
Language
German
Notes
The front there is an illustration of Dr. Ignaz Zollschan. He is wearing a suit and tie. On the back is a stamp from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire with a portrait of Kaiser Franz Joseph, worth 5 Heller. Dr. Ignaz Zollschan was a Jewish anthropologist who discussed ideas of the Jews as a race. He believed that the Jews were a "mixed race" of people whose racial ancestry came from the Semitic and Hittite peoples of the ancient Near East. Narrative: This postcard was written by Bernhard Kissman (Donor's father) to his fiancee Fritzi Winter (Donor's mother) who lived at that time with her parents in Tescheutz, Bukowina. They got married in July 1913. Bernhard Kissman worked at various places in forestry. Postcards between them were written daily, often a letter followed. Dr. Ignaz Zollschan was a Jewish anthropologist who discussed ideas of the Jews as a race. He believed that the Jews were a "mixed race" of people whose racial ancestry came from the Semitic and Hittite peoples of the ancient Near East.
Accession No.
1990.111.122
Name Access
Lisak (Kissman), Thea
Places
Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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