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Siegfried Dortort Diaries
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Siegfried Dortort was born in Basel, Switzerland on May 8, 1907 to Edward and Yetta Dortort. Siegfried had eight siblings, Oscar, Frieda, Louise, Isadore, Fannie, Albert, Bertha, and Josephine. The Dortort family immigrated to the United States in 1913, settling on 5th Street in South Philadelphia. Siegfried attended Central High School and West Philadelphia High School and took classes at Samuel Fleisher's Graphic Sketch Club. Siegfried married Rose Balis on September 1, 1928.
The Siegfried Dortort Diaries consist of three personal and two travel diaries, correspondence, family photographs, and ephemera documenting Siegfried Dortort's early childhood in Basel, Switzerland, his life in Philadelphia, and his travels abroad. One of the diaries, began on his wedding day contains entries written by both Siegfried and his wife, Rose.
Donated by Cirel Magen, niece of Siegfried Dortort in October 2013.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared in February 2015 by Jessica M. Lydon, Associate Archivist.
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- Machine-readable finding aid created by: Rajkumar Natarajan, Sky Global Services India (P) Ltd.
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- May 2024
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Collection is open for research.
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