Julius Messer collection

Collection of correspondence (postcards and envelopes) and birth certificate relating to Julius Messer (donor's cousin) who fled from Krakow, Poland to Shanghai, China during the Holocaust; Newspaper from Polish Jewish refugee community in Shanghai, dated December 1945. An accretion including: photographic portraits of Julius Messer and his wife Irena (nee Cynamon); photographic print of the Board of Directors retirement luncheon for Superintendance LTD, UK of which Julius Messer was Chairman of the Board; certified copies of the death certificate of Julius and Irena Messer; certificates regarding Julius Messer's employment and residency; and Julius Messer's birth certificate were added to the collection in August 2013.