Elsie Trovillions collection
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Overview
- Description
- Letter and envelope sent by Rie Wittenberg Hetteligh from Haarlem to Elsie Trovillions (donor's mother), dated July 1945. The two young women knew each other before the war, either as pen pals or personally. Rie described in her letter the long years of German occupation of Holland; confiscation of food and valuables, cold and other hardships suffered by the local population. She mentioned the murder of the majority of Dutch Jewry. Rie expressed her graditude for Americans, Canadians, and British for liberating Holland and described the shortages in postwar Holland. She told her friend that she was married since May 1943 and a young mother; in indirect way she asks for some help.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Steve Ferry
- Collection Creator
- Elsie Trovillions
- Biography
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Elsie Mae Trovillion married Joseph Howard Ferry and had children Stephen, Michael, and Karen.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- 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.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust survivors--Netherlands--Haarlem.
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 Steve Ferry.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:43:15
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn84876
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