Dr. Ignaz Zollschan
- 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
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