Inge Laband Strauss collection

Identifier
irn34822
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.31
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn34822

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Inge Strauss

Inge Strauss donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jan. 14, 2008.

Scope and Content

Consists of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the families of Inge Laband Strauss and Bruno Strauss. Includes a letter written in the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in 1945 by Inge's first cousin, Ilse Berger Pfingst, regarding her Holocaust experiences, including her deportation from Breslau to Theresienstadt (Terezin), to Auschwitz, to forced labor in a munitions factory near Oderan, Germany, and her liberation from Theresienstadt. Also includes pre-war documents regarding Herbert Laband's difficulty working in the mid-1930s due to antisemitism, as well as the emigration documents used by the family in their 1938 immigration to the United States. Includes extensive family histories for Ilse Pfingst, the family of Herbert Laband, and the family of Moritz Strauss.

Subjects

  • Deggendorf (Germany)

Genre

  • Document
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