Marburg family collection
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Lily Marburg
Biographical History
Lily Marburg from Vienna, Austria. After the Anschluss, Lily was in Switzerland. She traveled to Italy where she obtained a job as a dancer and eventually traveled to North Africa with the dance company of Esmanoff and Gerda. She spent the war in Tangier, where she met her husband.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joseph Bensadon
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Joseph Bensadon donated the Marburg family collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 2011.
Scope and Content
The Marburg family collection consists of letters and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Lily Marburg, originally of Vienna, Austria. The family correspondence from Vienna, Luxembourg and the Bayogne detention camp relates to the attempts of various family members to escape and emigrate from Austria.
System of Arrangement
The Marburg family collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Estermann, Erich.
- Mittelman, Fran.
- Marburg, Lily.
Subjects
- Italy.
- Austria.
- Dancers--Italy.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Vienna.
- Austria--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document