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Hannes family letters and postcards

Document | Accession Number: 1990.35 | RG Number: RG-10.157

Contains five Deutsches Rotes Kreuz form letters, dated from March 1943 to October 1944, written by Eugenie Hannes to her daughters, Ruth Hannes (Ruth Doswald) and Lieselotte "Lilo" Hannes (Lieselotte E. Rosenmeyer), in England. Responses from Ruth and Lieselotte are on the reverse of each letter. Also contains seven postcards addressed to Dr. Berthold Hannes, father of Lieselotte and Ruth Hannes and physician in Hamburg, Germany. The postcards were written by former patients of Dr. Hannes' who were imprisoned in Theresienstadt concentration camp. They range in date from December 1943 to September 1944.

Date
1943-1944
Language
German
French
Genre/Form
Postcards.
Extent
12 documents.
Extent
1 folder
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About This Document

System of Arrangement
Organized in the following order: Series I. Deutsches Rotes Kreuz letters, 1943 Mar.15-1944 Oct. 16. and Series II. Postcards from Theresienstadt, 1943 Dec. 13-1944 Sept. 9
Arrangement within each series is chronological

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Ruth Hannes Doswald collected the letters from her mother and the postcards from her father's patients imprisoned in Theresienstadt after World War II. She donated the letters and postcards to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Department in Mar. 1990. The Collections Department transferred the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Sept. 1995.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use
 
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