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Institut für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden in Hamburg collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.16 | RG Number: RG-14.058M

Overview

Description: Contains protocols, correspondence, writings of M. Plaut, personal papers of Epstein, who was chairman of the Jewish community, including poems and writings from Theresienstadt concentration camp (1942), restitution matters, postcards of Lotte Cahn from Theresienstadt and Łódź, Poland, and letters from Hamburg, Germany (1935-1937).
Date: inclusive: 1935-1954
Credit Line: Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Physical Details

Language: German
Genre/Form: Poetry
Extent: 2 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

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Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
Copyright Holder: Institut für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden (Germany)

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945. Concentration camp inmates' writings--Czech Republic--Terezín (Severočeský kraj) Restitution and indemnification claims (1933-)
Geographic Name: Łódź (Poland) Hamburg (Germany)
Personal Name: Plaut, M. Epstein, P. (Paul), 1871- Cahn, Lotte.
Corporate Name: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Institut für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden (Germany)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the the Institut für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden in Hamburg, Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfiche in Feb. 2003.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2023-06-06 12:38:25
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