Letter
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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Level
- item
- Scope & content
- handwriting on both sides, one circular post stamp on back side in the top right corner, with a red tinted picture on the back upper left hand corner, with stone buildings in the background. 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.
- In the picture
- Architectural StyleCastleChurchCityColumnDocumentGovernment BuildingHandwrittenHistoric SiteLetterPedimentPostage StampPostcardPostmarkTowerTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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- Extent
- Letter : paper : beige ; Ht: 10,5 cm x W: 14,5 cm
- Genre / form
- textual record
- Format
- Document
- Text in the image
- LIETUVA + LITUANIEATVIRUKASCARTE POSTALELIETUVAVilnius Senoji miesto statybaLa vieille architecturemr4909 N Drake AveChicago,Ill.AmericaO. MiskinskasSimnasAlytus Apskr.pas Filaksman11 XI 4211.XI.194035 CTJ. KraderRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- Yiddish
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
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- imageOpen original at source ↗2012_89_23a.jpg
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