Hulda Cassel correspondence collection
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Overview
- Description
- Contains five letters written by Holocaust survivor Hulda Cassel after her liberation from Theresienstadt. She wrote the letters from a refugee camp in Switzerland to her family in Manila between July and December 1945.
- Date
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creation:
1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Margot Pins Kestenbaum
- Collection Creator
- Hulda Cassel
- Biography
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Hulda Cassel (1878-1945) was born Hulda Jarzembreck on March 25, 1878 in Witków, near Poznań. She lived in Wałcz (Deutsch Krone) on the eve of World War II. She was deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt on September 21, 1942, was relocated to Switzerland in February 1945, and reportedly died in December 1945.
Physical Details
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. Margot Pins Kestenbaum
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust survivors--Switzerland.
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 2014 by Margot Pins Kestenbaum, granddaughter of Hulda Cassel.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:43:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn84404
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