Overview
- Description
- Consists of photocopies of letters, documents, pamphlets, and artwork related to the Holocaust experiences of family members of Barbara Sadagopan. Includes information and copies of the artwork of Arnold Weisc-Kubincan, a painter from Dolny Kubin, Orava, Slovakia, who perished in Auschwitz in 1942. Also includes documents and correspondence regarding the fate of Viktoria Weisc, who was deported to Auschwitz in 1943. The collection also includes one photograph of a group of Czechoslovak nurses and social workers, including Barbara Sadagopan's mother, which was taken in June 1945 before they left London to do relief work in Theresienstadt and a letter she wrote about the conditions there.
- Date
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inclusive:
1940-2010
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Barbara Sadagopan
- Collection Creator
- Barbara Sadagopan
- Biography
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Barbara Sadagopan was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1923, to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, the graphic artist, Helmut Krommer. The family was persecuted becasue her mother was Jewish. In 1933, they were forced to flee the Kunstlerkolonie in Berlin and find refuge in Czechoslovakia. When Germany annexed Prague in March 1939, the family fled to Yugoslavia because Helmet's anti-Nazi activities put him on the Gestapo's wanted list. Barbara, her sisters, and her mother were able to obtain visas and immigrate to England. Barbara spent the war years in England and immigrated to the United States in 1948. Her uncle, Arnold Weisz, apparently died at Sachsenhausen.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Letters.
- Extent
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1 folder
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Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Sadagopan, Barbara.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Barbara Sadagopan donated this photograph to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Feb. 10, 1994. Additional paper material was added to the collection in 2011.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:50:12
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Also in Barbara Sadagopan collection
Contains materials documenting the experiences of Barbara Sadagopan's family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Barbara Sadagopan papers
Document
Consists of various materials concerning Barbara Sadagopan and her family, originally from Berlin, Germany. Among the papers are letters from relatives before their deportation and articles concerning her relatives Helmut Krommer and Arnolda Weisz-Kubicana, both artists involved in anti-Nazi activities.