Sonnenmark family correspondence
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Overview
- Description
- Correspondence between members of the family of Robert Sonnenmark, of Prossnitz, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Prostějov, Czech Republic). Most of the letters are from Robert, while he was imprisoned at Buchenwald, addressed to his wife, Marta and daughter, Miriam in Prossnitz, and dated from October 1939 to March 1940. Many of these letters were forwarded by Marta to her father and brother in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, who added their own comments in the margins and forwarded them to Peter Sonnenmark, the son of Marta and Robert, who was living in Palestine. Other correspondence includes Red Cross letters sent by Peter to his parents and sister, June 1940 to July 1942; postcards sent by Marta to her father, Adolf Huber, in Zagreb, from January 1940 to August 1942; one postcard sent by Marta to Leo Susmann in Madrid, June 1942; and one postcard each sent by Marta and her daughter Miriam, after their deportation to Theresienstadt, and addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Stern, Marta's uncle and aunt, in Prossnitz, May 1944.
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1944
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lauren Greenberg
- Collection Creator
- Sonnenmark family
- Biography
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Robert Sonnenmark, of Prossnitz, Czechoslovakia (Prostějov, Czech Republic) was deported Dachau in the fall of 1939 and was subsequently moved to Buchenwald, also in 1939. He remained at that camp until 1942, when he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he died on 25 November 1942. His wife and daughter, Marta and Mirjam, remained in Prossnitz untily they were deported to Theresienstadt on 8 July 1942, They were later deported to Auschwitz, on 19 October 1944, where they both perished. Robert and Marta's son, Peter, had managed to immigrate to Palestine, settling in Tel Aviv.
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in subfolders by correspondent: Sonnemark, Marta--to father (Adolf Huber), 1940-1942; Sonnenmark, Marta and Mirjam, 1942-1944; Sonnenmark, Peter, 1941-1942; and Sonnenmark, Robert, 1939-1940.
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- Copyright Holder
- Ms. Lauren Greenberg
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Gift of Lauren Greenberg, 2012.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-07-11 07:31:30
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