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[email protected] Descriptive summary Title: Pisker, Fischer, and Altstädter families papers Dates: 1919-1987 (bulk 1935-1948) Accession number: 2014.411.1 Creator: Pisker family (Zagreb: Croatia) Fischer family (Zagreb: Croatia) Altstädter, Vladimir, 1911-1984. Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Pisker, Fischer, and Altstädter families in Yugoslavia. Biographical materials include marriage certificates, two postcards from Alfred Fischer to his wife Elvira Fischer Pisker written while he was imprisoned at the the Stara Gradiška subcamp of the Jasenovac concentration camp, and written testimony from Elvira describing her wartime experiences. The photographs include pre-war family photographs primarily of the Pisker family; the Pisker and Fischer families in Italian-occupied Crikvenica, Croatia; Elvira Pisker’s weddings to Alfred Fischer in 1936 and Vladimir Altstädter in 1948; Vladimir Altstädter in Yugoslav Partisan uniform; and the Pisker and Fischer families in the Kraljevica and Rab concentration camps. Languages: Croatian, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact the Reference Desk more than seven days prior to visit in order to request access. Reproduction and use: Collection is available for use. Material may be protected by copyright.