Bauchwitz family collection

Identifier
irn38646
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.325
  • RG-10.483
Dates
1 Jan 1935 - 31 Dec 2009
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn38646

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Robert Bauchwitz

Robert Bauchwitz donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on November 13, 2009.

Scope and Content

Consists of information regarding the Holocaust experiences of siblings Peter Siegbert Bauchwitz and Rita Bauchwitz Molony, both of Halle, Germany. Includes biographical and memoir information, in German and English, about Peter Bauchwitz, copies of correspondence regarding the Jewish community of Halle, and copies of official wartime documentation and correspondence related to the Bauchwitz family (focused on father Paul Bauchwitz and on Rita Bauchwitz). Includes lists of property looted from the family. Rita and Peter were both able to immigrate to Palestine, but their parents were deported from Halle in 1942 and perished in the Holocaust.

People

  • Bauchwitz, Peter Siegbert.
  • Molony, Rita Bauchwitz.
  • Bauchwitz, Paul.

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Halle an der Saale.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions.

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.