Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Fritz Gutenstein postcard from Dachau concentration camp

Document | Accession Number: 1988.A.0097 | RG Number: RG-10.167

One postcard written by Fritz Gutenstein from Dachau concentration camp on November 18, 1938, to his wife, Bertel (Bertha)Gutenstein, in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany. He reports on his arrival in the camp and asks for news from home.

Date
creation:  1938 November 18
Language
German
Genre/Form
Postcards.
Correspondence.
Extent
1 folder

About This Document

Document Creator
Fritz Gutenstein
Biography
Fritz Gutenstein (1888-1962) was born July 24, 1888 in Frankfurt am Main and lived in Ludwigshafen with his wife Bertha (Bertel Gimbel, 1895-1985). He was an engineer and served in World War I. He was arrested during Kristallnacht, imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp on November 12, 1938, and given prisoner number 25544. He was released on December 16, 1938 and immigrated to the United States with his wife. He settled in Chicago, near his cousin Paul Gutenstein.
System of Arrangement
The Fritz Gutenstein postcard is arranged in a single series.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Hanns Gutenstein donated the Fritz Gutenstein postcard to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 1988.
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: 2019-12-05 21:21:05
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn506432