Elja Heifecs collection

Collection

Collection Summary: The collection consisting of a two prisoner badges, a commemorative pin, a poster, correspondence, documents, photographs, and sheet music relating to the experiences of Elja Heifecs who was imprisoned in Riga ghetto, Kaiserwald, Muhlgraben, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust and in Riga, Latvia, before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Provenance: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Samuel Heifetz, the son of Elja Heifecs.
Date: 1937-1968

Geography: distribution: Riga (Latvia)
Date: publication/distribution: 1937 January
Geography: issue: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Date: use: 1944 August-1945 April
Geography: issue: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Date: use: 1944 August-1945 April
Geography: issue: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Date: commemoration: 1945 April 11
received: 1969
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