Meyer family papers

Document | Accession Number: 2018.195.1

Contains correspondence, dated 1939-1940, and a photograph concerning the experiences of Gerda and Heinz Meyer, their daughter Tana (donor), and Tana's grandmother Charlotte Abelt. Includes correspondence from Charlotte and Gerda to Charlotte's sister and brother-in-law in Sweden. Charlotte and Tana survived in Theresienstadt; Gerda and Heinz were separately deported to Auschwitz, where Gerda was killed.

Date: 1939-1940
Language: German
Genre/Form: Letters.
Photograph.
Extent: 1 folder
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tana Ross

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Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Tana Ross.
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Correspondence, photograph and prayer book illustrating the experiences of Tana and her parents Gerda and Heinz Meyer and her grandmother Charlotte Abelt. Correspondence from Charlotte and Gerda to Charlotte's sister and brother-in-law in Sweden. Charlotte and Tana survived in Theresienstadt. Gerda and Heinz separately deported to Auschwitz where Gerda was killed.