Lester Striker collection

Documents and correspondence illustrating the efforts of Szyja and Beila Lazar and their children, Perla and Samuel, to emigrate from Kraków, Poland in 1940. Included is a typed letter that Beila sent to the American Consulate in Berlin, Germany on which she also wrote a personal letter to her brother Max Striker (donor's father) in Brooklyn, NY. Letter indicates that the family has been deported from Kraków, and asks for packages of food and clothing as conditions are not good. Szyja, Beila, Perla and Samuel were killed.