Overview
- Description
- The collection consists mainly of photographs of the activities of Nathan at the displaced persons camp in Neustadt in Holstein, Germany. Some photographs in the collection are of his activities in the Boy Scouts and of his family. Also included is a postcard with a drawing of a fleur-de-lis and the words "Esi Modrs" underneath as well as the pre-printed name of a Latvian scouting organization.
- Date
-
inclusive:
1930-1946
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dagmar Phillips
- Collection Creator
- Nathan Rohloff
- Biography
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Nathan Rohloff (Natan Roloff) was Dagmar Phillips and Aviva Zylberberg’s paternal grandfather. The Roloff family lived in Riga, Latvia and Natan was an activist in the boy scouts movement. Natan’s son, Joachim Roloff married Thea Raudis. Their daughter Aviva was born in April 1940 and Dagmar in November 1941. After the German invasion of the USSR, the daughters stayed with their mother until sometime in 1943, when Dagmar inadvertently was separated from her mother and sister. Joachim Roloff probably was killed one day before the liberation of Riga. Natan Roloff found his granddaughter Dagmar in Duchero in 1948 and smuggled her to West Germany. At the same time, he found his daughter-in-law and older granddaughter Aviva and brought them over to the DP camp that he managed in Neustadt/Holstein. In the early 1950s Natan Roloff and his granddaughters immigrated to the United States.
Physical Details
- Language
- Latvian
- Genre/Form
- Photographs. Postcards.
- Extent
-
3 folders
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Scouts (Youth organization members) Jewish families--Latvia. Memorial rites & ceremonies--Germany--1940-1950.
- Geographic Name
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History. Riga (Latvia)
- Personal Name
- Rohloff, Nathan. Roloff, Joachim. Roloff, Max. Weithorn, Rochelle.
- Corporate Name
- Neustadt (Displaced persons camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Dagmar Phillips and Aviva Zylberberg in 1999.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-10-13 10:22:23
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