Fred Hillman family collection

• 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.

• 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...