Overview
- Description
- The Seymour Reitman collection consists of handwritten notes made by survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the Wildflecken on Danube (SS training camp) camp given to Seymour Reitman, a member of the US Army, shortly after liberation, circa 1945. Among the survivors were Jewish performers from a Yiddish Theater in Berlin, Germany who had been at Buchenwald concentration camp performing for the SS. The collection includes names and addresses of survivors, and testimony, in Yiddish, of a survivor named Yakov Leukovits, born in Skernievits (Skierniewice, Poland) addressed to E. Wolby of Los Angeles, CA, about the known fate of family members. Some notes were written on camp scrip.
- Date
-
creation:
circa 1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Seymour Reitman
- Collection Creator
- Seymour G. Reitman
- Biography
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Seymour G. Reitman served as a soldier during World War II.
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish.
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Seymour Reitman collection is arranged in a single series.
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
- Holocaust survivors. Yiddish theater. Displaced persons--Europe. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Geographic Name
- Germany.
- Personal Name
- Reitman, Seymour.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Seymour Reitman doanted the Seymour Reitman collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-23 13:56:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn543333
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