Showing Collections: 11 - 11 of 11
Stirt Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0352
Abstract
Irving Stirt (1921-2010) grew up in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania and immigrated to the United States in 1940. He lived in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Marinette (WI), during which time he completed high school, enlisted in the U.S. army, and married. Stirt's family, who remained in Kaunas, are presumed to have been killed by the Nazis in 1941. This small archive includes a diary, letters, documents, and photographs that evidence Stirt's departure from Lithuania at the age of 19, the death...
Dates:
1923-2010; Majority of material found within 1938-1941
Filtered By
- Language: Yiddish X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Jews. 9
- Jews -- Migrations. 4
- Emigration and immigration. 3
- Holocaust survivors. 3
- electronic records (digital records) 3
- Florida. 2
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). 2
- Human rights. 2
- Israel. 2
- Jews -- Lithuanian. 2
- Anniversaries. 1
- Antisemitism. 1
- Argentina. 1
- Austria. 1
- Cold War (1945-1989). 1
- Cuba -- Havana. 1
- Discrimination. 1
- Early childhood education -- Curricula. 1
- Florida -- Jacksonville. 1
- Freedom of speech. 1
- Germany. 1
- Jewish calendar. 1
- Jewish diaspora. 1
- Jewish periodicals. 1
- Jewish sermons, Yiddish. 1
- Jews, Latin American. 1
- Jews, Polish. 1
- Judaism. 1
- Lithuania -- Kaunas. 1
- Mexico. 1
- Middle East -- Palestine. 1
- Netherlands. 1
- Orthodox Judaism. 1
- Performance. 1
- Poland -- Jaroslaw. 1
- Poland. 1
- Property insurance claims. 1
- Romania. 1
- Theology. 1
- Tourism. 1
- United States. 1
- Uruguay. 1
- Wissenschaft des Judentums (Movement). 1
- Zionism. 1
- newspapers 1 ∧ less
- Language
- Hebrew 9
- Spanish; Castilian 7
- German 6
- French 4
- Dutch; Flemish 3
- Lithuanian 3
- Multiple languages 3
- Russian 3
- Hungarian 2
- Italian 2
- Polish 2
- Arabic 1
- Latvian 1
- Portuguese 1
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan 1
- Swedish 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Singerman, Robert. 2
- Federman, Amy Schlagel. 1
- Feist, Richard M. (Richard Michael), 1923- 1
- Gaíl de Farber, Sara, 1918-1984. 1
- Great Britain. Army. British Army of the Rhine. 1
∨ more
∨ more