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Devorah Urgeshevitz Radin papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-003
 

Devorah Urgeshevitz Radin papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-003

Images, photocopies of passports and other government documents, and other papers of Devorah "Dorothy" Urgeshevitz Radin, a Jewish nurse who fled Lithuania in 1939. Images include photocopies and digital images of Radin, family members, and friends taken from her scrapbooks.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Dates
Creation: 1928-2005
Extent
0.25 linear feet (6 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Script
Latin
Language of Materials
Lithuanian
Script
Latin
Language of Materials
Yiddish
Script
Hebrew

Biographical information, 2005, undated

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 2, Folder: 1

Includes notes from conversations with Radin's daughter, Barbara Radin Fox, by Karen Tannenbaum, field researcher for the Holocaust Archives, and brief biographies of Radin written by her daughter and herself.

Dates
Creation: 2005, undated

Identification photocopies, 1928-1946, 1995, 2005, undated

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 2, Folder: 2

Includes photocopies of Radin's Lithuanian and American passports, photocopies of Radin's and her husband's United States certificates of naturalization and marriage license, and photocopies of Radin's diplomas, transcripts, and Lithuanian nursing license.

Dates
Creation: 1928-1946, 1995, 2005, undated

Correspondence photocopies, 1959-1972, undated

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 2, Folder: 3

Photocopies of correspondence, including letters in Yiddish to Radin from her sister-in-law in Lithuania.

Dates
Creation: 1959-1972, undated

Photograph album photocopies, 1928-1943

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 2, Folder: 4

Photocopies of pages and loose photographs from Radin's photograph album showing her as a student in high school and nursing school, with family and friends, and on vacation in Palanga and Kraziai in Lithuania, and at the World's Fairs in Paris and New York. These images have been scanned and are available on CD and DVD.

Dates
Creation: 1928-1943

Photograph album photocopies, 1928-1944

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 2, Folder: 5

Photocopies of pages and loose photographs from Radin's photograph album showing her with family and friends. These images have not been scanned and the photocopies are the only copies of these images.

Dates
Creation: 1928-1944

Digital images, 1928-2005

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 2, Folder: 6

Printouts of scans of photograph album and other papers. Digital images on CD and DVD are included.

Dates
Creation: 1928-2005
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