Overview
- Description
- Contains documents concerning Sender (Alexander) Spielman and his wife, Helen (nee Hudes), and their experiences in the Westerbork internment camp in the Netherlands.
- Date
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1922-1986
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Edith Spielman Frankel
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 folder
1 oversize folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
- Copyright Holder
- Ms. Edith Spielman Frankel
Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Spielman, Alexander. Spielman, Helen Hudes.
- Corporate Name
- Westerbork (Concentration camp)
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 2013 by Edith Spielman Frankel
- Record last modified:
- 2024-03-19 09:46:49
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Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of the Spielman and Hudes families. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Spielman and Hudes families papers
Document
Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, copy prints and clippings that document the experiences of Alexander Spielman; his wife Helen Hudes Spielman; their children Bernhard, Nathan, Hanna (donor), and Edith; and their experiences in the Netherlands, France, and the United States before, during, and after World War II. Helen, Nathan, and Hanna had American citizenship. In October 1942, the family was denounced by the Maastrihct town mayor and deported from their home to Westerbork. They were separated from Alexander, who was sent to perform forced labor. Helen and the children were then sent to Libenau and then to the Vittel internment camp in France, where they were liberated by the US Army in September 1944. Helen, Edith and Hanna can all be seen in newsreel outtakes documenting the liberation of the camp and being entertained by Army Medic Eldon Nicholas playing with "Kiki," the monkey puppet (see RG-60.2062 and 2009.203.2). The family was reunited with Alexander in Vittel before going to the La Bourboule DP camp. They sailed to the US on board the USS Barry, a hospital ship for wounded soldiers, arriving in Boston on December 23, 1944.
