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Schwab family papers

Document | Accession Number: 2001.140

Date: 1939-1941 (inclusive)
Language: German
English
Genre/Form: Correspondence.
Extent: 2 folders
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Susan Schwab and Teresa Marshall

Document Creator: Schwab family
Biography: Levi (born in 1879 in Grenbenau, Germany) and Selma (born Sara Selma Strauss in 1883) lived in Büdesheim, Schöneck, Hessen, Germany and had two children, Karl (Carl, 1914-1998) and Lilly (later Lilly Lehman, d. 1997). Karl immigrated to the United States in 1936, Lilly arrived by 1938, and both settled in Chicago. Levi and Selma were deported from Büdesheim to Poland on 30 September 1942 or 1943 where they perished.
System of Arrangement: The collection is arranged as a single series.
Topical Term: Jews--Germany.
Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
Geographic Name: Büdesheim (Schöneck, Hesse, Germany)
Personal Name: Schwab, Karl.
Schwab. Lilly.
Schwab, Levi.
Schwab, Selma.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Dorothy Schwab donated these letters to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 2, 2000.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2019-01-15 16:07:40
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