Overview
- Description
- Contains letters and postcards received by Martin, his parents Alice and Richard Lewin, and his siblings Edith and Walter Lewin in New York City from Ella and Abraham Wolffs (Alice's parents) and Herman Heine (Ella's brother) in Stettin, Germany, and later after circa 1940, Glusk, Poland to where they were deported, eventually perishing in Theresienstadt. Correspondence also to Gertrude Wolffs Jerner (Alice's sister) from Stettin and to Willy and Herta Wurzberg (Richard's sister and brother in law) in the Netherlands. Willy and Herta who survived with two daughters in hiding in the Netherlands. One daughter was discovered by the Nazis and never heard from again. The older daughter Ruth survived and came to America after the war with her parents.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Martin Lewin
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Letters. Postcards.
- Extent
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1 folder
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.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Martin Lewin.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-28 13:24:01
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Contains documentation concerning the donor's grandparents and their efforts to leave Nazi-occupied Szczecin (Stettin).
