Dorrit Westheimer collection
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the family of Dorrit Westheimer [FINAL CREDIT LINE TO BE CONFIRMED BY CURATOR]
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by the family of Dorrit Westheimer.
Scope and Content
Contains documents, photographs, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Dorrit Feuerstein, born 1936 in Ústí nad Labem, the former Czechoslovakia, and her parents Marianne and Edmund Feuerstein, who fled persecution to France in 1939 and then ultimately to the United Kingdom, where the family remained through the end of the second World War.
Subjects
- England--Emigration and immigration.
- France--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
- Letters.