Overview
- Description
- Documents, correspondence, and photographs concerning the experiences of Leo Lowy. Includes documents and correspondence specific to the donor's internment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, deportation to Auschwitz, and his transfer to and liberation from Buchenwald. Includes information about his subsequent experiences as a "guest" of the U.S. Army's 639 Battery Division, and post-liberation correspondence with his family. Also included are correspondence and documents from his uncle Karl Fuchs in Dachau to his aunt in Czechoslovakia, including death certificate of his uncle issued from Dachau in 1941.
- Collection Creator
- Leopold Lowy
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Letters. Photographs. Death certificates.
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Mr. Leopold Lowy
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-14 15:52:19
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Also in Leopold Lowy collection
Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of Leopold Lowy and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Fuchs and Lowy families collection
Document
Documents relating to Erna and Mark Fuchs and Leopold Lowy, and memoir relating to Leopold Lowy.
