Overview
- Description
- The Goldstein family letters contain correspondence addressed to the Goldstein family, primarily while they were living in Brussels, Belgium. The letters are mainly from Regina’s family living in Debica, Poland, including her parents Josef and Cilli Suessmann and her brother Moritz, among others. Several letters are from Opole, Poland. Two letters are written from Jack while he was away at Maaseik. Also included are some letters from the Jewish Committee in Lublin, and translations for many of the letters.
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Bruno Goldstein and Jack Goldstein
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jack Goldstein - Collection Creator
- Goldstein family
- Biography
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Heinrich Goldstein was born in Vienna, Austria in October 1903. Regina Sussman, was born in Baranov, Poland in September 1903. The two married and resided in Vienna, where they had twin boys, Bruno and Jack on March 13, 1935. Soon after the annexation of Austria by Germany, the family, along with Regina’s sister Fanni, moved to Brussels, Belgium. With the invasion of Belgium by Germany in 1940, Heinrich was sent to Gurs internment camp. The rest of the family attempted to escape to England but failed. Due to the work Heinrich was performing at the camp making coats for German soldiers to fight the Russians, the family was allowed to stay in Brussels. Later, Regina had heard of Pere Bruno Reynders, a Catholic priest who was hiding Jewish children in convents. In 1943, the children were sent to Pere Bruno in Maaseik, Belgium, where they were given new identification papers. The children were returned to their parents just before the end of the war. The Goldsteins survived, including Fanni, but many of Heinrich’s family perished after deportation to Opole, Poland. The family immigrated to the United States in 1949.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Letters. Envelopes.
- Extent
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1 box
- System of Arrangement
- The Goldstein family letters are 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
- Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Austria. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Belgium. Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jews--Belgium--Brussels.
- Geographic Name
- Vienna (Austria) Maaseik (Belgium) Brussels (Belgium) Opole (Poland)
- Personal Name
- Goldstein, Heinrich. Goldstein, Regina. Goldstein, Bruno. Goldstein, Jack. Suessmann, Josef. Suessmann, Cilli. Suessmann, Moritz. Suessmann, Fanni. Reynders, Bruno.
- Corporate Name
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Jack Goldstein in 2000. An additional donation by Bruno Goldstein from 2006 was unified into this collection.
- Primary Number
- 2000.378.1
- Record last modified:
- 2023-04-11 09:23:41
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Embroidered tea cozy used by Austrian Jewish refugees to store family correspondence
Object
Tea cozy used in Belgium by Regina Goldstein, the mother of twin boys, Bruno and Jack, to store correspondence and documents written by Goldstein family members in Debica and Opole, Poland, who were unable to escape their German occupied country. Most of them did not survive the Holocaust. Bruno and Jack were 6 years old at the time and used some of the letters for drawing paper. Their family fled Austria in 1939. Their father was deported to Gurs internment camp after the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940. The family avoided deportation in 1942,but at the end of 1942, their mother contacted Pere Bruno Reynders, a Catholic priest, to place the boys in hiding. They were given new names and identity papers and driven, covered in blankets, to Convent Saint Jan Berchmans. Shortly before the war ended, Jack became ill and their mother took both boys home and hid them with her. The family survived the war and emigrated to the United States in 1949.