Fred Hillman family collection

Identifier: irn45184
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Theodore A. Feintuch, the cousin of Fred Hillman.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a portfolio of sketch reproductions, Le Struthof Natzwiller, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Manfred Hillmann (later Fred Hillman) and his family in Germany and Poland before and during the Holocaust, and of Manfred as a prisoner in Buchenwald and several other concentration camps during the Holocaust and then as a resident of Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after the war.

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Manfred Hillmann papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn46998
- English
- 1927-1996
- folders 5
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains photographs of the Hillmann family before the war and of Fred [Manfred Hillmann (donor's cousin)] after the war in Germany, and with US soldiers he worked with. Includes letters written by Herman Hillmann, his brother Josef (in Berlin), his sister Blima (in Stanslawow), their mother Perl, and other relatives to Kiva and Dora Feintuch, Harry and Mina Roxenberg, in New York between 1927-1941, and post-war correspondence relating to Fred Hillmann and his documents during his stay in Germany.
Portfolio cover for a set of 15 reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn46999
- English
- 1946
- overall: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Portfolio cover for a set of secretly created prisoner sketches from Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, which were reproduced, engraved, and published in 1946. The originals were created by Henri Gayot and the introduction was written by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. The sketches depict daily camp life and prisoner abuse, particularly for prisoners like Gayot and LaPorte, who were marked as Nacht und Nebel (NN) [night and fog], and were meant to “vanish” in the camp. LaPorte was arrested by the German Sipo in February 1943 a...

Fred Hillman family collection

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Manfred Hillmann papers

Portfolio cover for a set of 15 reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner