Yehudit Stieglitz Kessler collection

Identifier
irn36283
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.226.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judith Stieglitz Kessler

Acquired by Yehudit Stieglitz Kessler during and after the Holocaust. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Yehudit Stieglitz Kessler.

Scope and Content

Collection of photographs of Yehudit Stieglitz [donor, now Yehudit Kessler] and family members during the Holocaust era. Included is a photo of Jewish students who were omitted from public school celebration holding their own event; photos of the donor and her mother in Caux, Switzerland after arriving on the "Kasztner Train," after spending six months in Bergen Belsen; a notebook of recipes written in Bergen Belsen by the donor with recipes received from other women who lived in her barracks, dated 1944; and a food coupon issued in Caux, Switzerland, dated 1945.

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