Yehudit Stieglitz Kessler collection
Extent and Medium
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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.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--Switzerland.
- Caux (Switzerland)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Cookbook.
- Document