Overview
- Date
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Recorded:
1995
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Michael Lowenthal
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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5 sound cassettes (90 min.) : analog.
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- Conditions on Access
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- Conditions on Use
- Restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Michael Lowenthal donated recordings from a 1995 reunion in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 09:45:08
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Also in Michael Lowenthal collection
The collection includes correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to Alfred Levy, Herta Levy, and their son, Heinz Levy’s prewar and wartime experience in Germany and the Netherlands, including in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. The collection also includes a recording of a reunion in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from 1995.
Date: circa 1936-1995
Levy family papers
Document
The Levy family papers document the experiences of Alfred Levy, Herta Levy, and their son, Heinz Levy, in Germany and the Netherlands. The collection includes wartime letters and postcards from Alfred, Herta, and Heinz Levy to Andreas van Mierlo, a colleague of Alfred’s, in Edam, Netherlands, who sent packages to the family in the Herzogenbusch concentration camp and Westerbork transit camp, as well as receipts for the packages. Also included is postwar correspondence concerning Heinz, mainly to the van Mierlo family from Klara Gotthilf relating to the care of Heinz during the war, correspondence concerning the Levy’s possessions left in Edam after they were deported, and photographs of the Levy family. The collection includes translations of some of the documents.
