Volume 1

Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection documents the life of Irving Stirt and includes a diary, letters, documents, and photographs that evidence Stirt's departure from Lithuania at the age of 19, the supposed death of his family at the hands of the Nazis and his multiple attempts at gaining information about them, and his early experiences as an immigrant living in America. Letters exchanged with family and friends from Lithuania and the United States are mostly dated between 1938 and 1941, immediately before and...