Metadata: Private Archives of the Silberstein Family
Collection
- Country:
- Finland
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Finland (Helsinki)
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kansallisarkisto
- Postal address:
- Rauhankatu 17, 00171 Helsinki, Finland
- Phone number:
- +358 29 533 7000
- Web address:
- https://arkisto.fi/
- Reference number:
- Silberstein-suvun arkisto
- Title:
- Private Archives of the Silberstein Family
- Title (official language):
- Silberstein-suvun arkisto
- Creator/accumulator:
- the Family Silberstein
- Date(s):
- 1914/1966
- Language:
- Swedish
- Finnish
- Extent:
- 2 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains the private archives of the Finnish-Jewish family Silberstein living in Turku, Finland: photos and textual records of Israel Silberstein and his wife Lea Saks. The collection (file 1) contains a photo album from the years 1914–1955: photos of family and friends, and photos from the Russian army, various events of the Turku Jewish community and the activities of the sports association Makkabé in Turku. The collection also holds the Swedish-language memoirs of the brother of Lea Saks, Isak (1894–1960), from his service in the Russian army during the First World War (Tre år som rysk soldat, ‘Three years as a Russian soldier’). In addition, there is a photo album from the years 1928–1966 (file 2): family photos, photos of activities of the Turku Jewish community and of the sports association Makkabé in Turku, and of the family’s travels abroad.
- Archival history:
- The archives of the Silberstein family were donated in 2010 by a member of the family as part of the initiative to collect private archives of Jewish individuals in the National Archives of Finland. The initiative was funded by the Leo and Regina Wainstein foundation. The Silberstein archives were organized in the National Archives in Helsinki.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Israel Silberstein (1884–1969) was born in Turku to the non-commissioned officer in the Russian army, Mordechai Leib Silberstein (1853–1924) and Haja-Sara Levin (1859–1923). Silberstein served in the Russian army as an artillery bomb laboratory man in the 31st Artillery brigade, 8th battery in Belgorod, Russia. After his release from the army in 1906, he worked as a hatmaker in Helsinki and as a shopkeeper in Turku. His wife Lea Saks was born in 1884 in Labanoras, Lithuania, and died in 1963 in Turku. They had two children, Zemach Silberstein (1921–2017) and Sarah Silberstein (1923–2003). Isak Sachs was one of the brothers of Lea Saks, born in 1894 in Labanoras, Lithuania, and died in Tampere, Finland, in 1960. Sachs was a soldier in the Russian army during WWI, and was wounded twice. After the war he worked as a businessman and a manager in Tampere, Finland.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Isak Saks Silberstein family
- Israel Silberstein
- Lea Saks
- Sarah Silberstein
- Zemach Silberstein
- Yerusha Network member:
- National Archives of Finland