Ingeborg Price collection

Identifier
irn43783
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.342.1
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn43783

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ingeborg Price

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Ingeborg Price.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a printed leaflet containing a wartime poem, "La Terrible Epreuve"; a leaflet with an image of Marshal Petain on a horse, with a handwritten message to a child, addressed to Therese Majewski and counseling her to work hard, persevere, and be loyal; a broadside containing a mock testament from Adolf Hitler; and a copy of a French newspaper ("La liberte du centre"), announcing the surrender of the German army, May 1945.

People

  • Pétain, Philippe, 1856-1951.

Subjects

  • France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

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.