Metadata: Sachs-Koretz Family Archive
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv Židovského muzea v Praze
- Postal address:
- Stroupežnického 32, Praha 5, 150 00
- Phone number:
- 00420222749111
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/
- Email:
- office@jewishmuseum.cz
- Reference number:
- 337
- Title:
- Sachs-Koretz Family Archive
- Title (official language):
- Sachs-Koretz, rodinný archiv
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jiří Sachs
- Date(s):
- 1866/2004
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- English
- Extent:
- 0.11 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains personal documents relating to family members and photographs.
- Archival history:
- The material was donated to the Jewish Museum in Prague in 2014-15 by George Sachs.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Pavel Koretz was born in Prague in 1906. He worked as an official and was a member of the B'nai B'rith Lodge. He emigrated to the USA before the Second World War. His wife Helena (née Zabilová) was born in Louny in 1907. His parents, Alois and Zdenka, died in the Lodz ghetto. A member of his extended family who survived was Eva Sachs (b. 1924); after the war, she emigrated to the USA with her husband Jiří (George) Sachs.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Koretz, Pavel
- Sachs-Koretz family
- Sachs, Eva
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Personal records
- Photographs
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged according to the individual members of the extended family: Antonín Koretz, Alois Koretz, Zdenka Fischerová (Koretzová), Pavel Koretz, Ignác (Hynek) Löwy, Blažena Löwyová, Hermína Urbachová, Julius Urbach, Gertude Urbach; photographs and varia.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible
- Finding aids:
- Hanková M: Rodina Sachs-Koretz, Inventář, 2015, 7 s., AP č. 347
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.