Lucie Dattner Kopec collection

Overview

Collection Summary

The collection consists of handwritten sheet music by Lucie Dattner, a musician, while she was imprisoned in Cavallon, France, (near Avignon) in 1943-1944, while the French police were trying to force her to disclose the hiding place of her mother Marie Goldstein Dattner and an identification card issued by Belgian authorities to Lucie Dattner, born July 25, 1924 in Antwerp. The ID is marked with two red ink stamps which idenify her as "Jood Juif" [Jew] and registered in the Jewish community; issued December 23, 1940; in Flemish.

Provenance

THe collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Loretta Cohen in memory of her mother Lucie Dattner.