Nathan and Edith Litvin collection

Overview

Collection Summary

Consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook pages documenting the experiences of Nathan Litvin and Edith Festinger Litvin. Includes pre-war and post-war photographs of the Festinger family, documents related to Edith's immediate post-war life, and correspondence, documents and photographs of the 1946 weddings (one in Paris and one in the United States) of Nathan, a Jewish-American soldier and Edith, a survivor of Auschwitz. Also includes a large spiral bound book of scans, descriptions, and narrative of the collection and DVDs of film footage which Nathan Litvin produced of his trip to Europe in the summer of 1946 to marry Edith and bring her back to the United States.

Provenance

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Naomi Litvin.