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Marburg family collection

Document | Accession Number: 2011.195.1

The Marburg family collection consists of letters and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Lily Marburg, originally of Vienna, Austria. The family correspondence from Vienna, Luxembourg and the Bayogne detention camp relates to the attempts of various family members to escape and emigrate from Austria.

Date
inclusive:  1936-1945
Language
German
French
Genre/Form
Correspondence.
Extent
1 folder
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joseph Bensadon

About This Document

Document Creator
Lily Marburg
Biography
Lily Marburg from Vienna, Austria. After the Anschluss, Lily was in Switzerland. She traveled to Italy where she obtained a job as a dancer and eventually traveled to North Africa with the dance company of Esmanoff and Gerda. She spent the war in Tangier, where she met her husband.
System of Arrangement
The Marburg family collection is arranged in a single series.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Joseph Bensadon donated the Marburg family collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 2011.
Funding Note
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use
 
Record last modified: 2021-05-25 15:10:17
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