Claudia Leder Bookspan collection

Identifier
irn37004
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.159.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn37004

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Claudia Leder-Bookspan

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Ms. Claudia Leder-Bookspan

Scope and Content

Collection of documents relating to Lore Felsenthal (donor's mother) and Toni Stein (donor's grandmother); their flight from Germany through Belgium; their imprisonment in the Gurs concentration camp; and their arrival to the US in June 1941. Also includes documents and photographs relating to Eugenia Leder Mayer (donor's paternal aunt), who was deported from Italy to Theresienstadt in 1943 and did not survive.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Belgium.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.

Genre

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.