Overview
- Description
- This letter contains the text of the suicide declaration of the novelist Stefan Zweig, who took his life while in exile in Petrópolis, Brazil, in February 1942. The statement at the end of the first paragraph reads as follows:.".my spiritual homeland Europe, self-destructed." This version is likely a hand-written copy, from an unknown source. The original version of this letter is owned by the National Library of Israel.
- Date
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1942 February 22
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Samuel Meerbaum. To honor the well known intellectual Stefan Zweig.
Physical Details
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The letter was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Samuel Meerbaum in 1998.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:14:25
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