Overview
- Description
- The Katarina Grünsteinová collection contain various documents relating to Katarina’s imprisonment during the Holocaust. Items include two postcards sent while Katarina was in Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Red Cross card, a camp newsletter, and a court decision ordering her father Moric, to dissolve his company. Other items include two newspapers, a copy of Katarina’s Czech memoir, and a small booklet about her hometown during the Holocaust.
- Date
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inclusive:
1938-1991
- Collection Creator
- Katarina Gruensteinova
- Biography
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Katarina Grünsteinová (nee Feldbauer) was born on March 15, 1922 to Moric and Franziska Feldbauer. Katarina and her older borther, Bernhard, grew up in Senica, Czechoslovakia. They lived there until Nazi occupation, when they were deported to Bratislava-Patronka concentration camp, and following that, to Auschwitz, where Katarina’s entire family was killed. She was transported to Ravensbrück in 1944, and later to Malchow in 1945, where she was liberated. After the war she lived in Prague and eventually married Robert Grünstein.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Memoirs. Newspapers. Newsletters. Postcards.
- Extent
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6 folders
1 oversize folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Katarina Grünsteinová collection is arranged as a single series.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jewish children--Czechoslovakia. Jewish children in the Holocaust--Czechoslovakia. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives. Jewish families--Czechoslovakia--Senica. Holocaust victims' families. Holocaust victims. Concentration camp inmates--Correspondence.
- Geographic Name
- Senica, (Slovakia)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Katarina Grünsteinová collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 by Katarina Grünsteinová.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:48:21
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500573
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