Zinaida Behmuaras: personal papers

Identifier
WL1821
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 71201
Dates
1 Jan 1930 - 31 Jan 1978
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • Czech
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Zinaida ('Zina') Behmuaras (1912-1977, née Rozenblum) was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. She went to a private German school until May 1930. In 1932 she got married to Leo Behmuaras (born 1910), a Jewish student originally from Czechoslovakia. Zinaida studied at the Pathologic-Anatomical Institute of Vienna from 1936 to 1938. She followed her husband to Montagnac, France, in 1940 where he was stationed with the Czech army at a military training camp. The circumstances of her emigration to England are unclear. According to the accounts of family friends, Zinaida was rescued from Nazi occupied France by an English businessman who brought her to England. Her marriage was annulled in 1946. Zinaida became a British citizen in 1953.

Acquisition

Personal papers of Zinaida Behmuaras- 1 folder

Donated May 2011

Donor: Evelyn Page

Scope and Content

This collection contains the personal papers of Zinaida Behmuaras, a Lithuanian Jewish woman who fled to England from Nazi occupied France in 1940.

Personal papers including are school certificates, marriage certificate and naturalisation papers, French ID papers, telegrams from Kauna (1940-1941), photographs, and death certificate. 

System of Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Related Units of Description

  • For photographs see photo archive.

People

  • Behmuaras, Zinaida

Subjects

Places

  • Kaunas
  • Montagnac
  • London
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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