Thea Lange Spiegel collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2007.25

Overview

Description: Consists of materials related to the experiences of Thea Lange Spiegel, originally of Danzig, Germany (Gdansk, Poland). Includes wartime letters from Thea, who went to England in 1939 on a Kindertransport, to her mother and sisters, who were interned in Mauritius after a failed attempt to emigrate to Palestine in 1940; post-war letters to Thea from her mother and sisters in Israel; two copies of "Diskretion..Ehrensache!", published by the Jakob Lange (Thea's father) publishing house. Also includes a copy of a memoir entitled "A Free World? No Concentration Camp, but Behind Prison Walls" by Josef Deutsch, a refugee who was also interned in Mauritius.
Date: 1930-2005

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Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Thea Lange Spiegel donated her collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Sept. 10, 2006.