Jura Soyfer collection
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Paul E. Anderson
Helen Ultmann Andis donated her former fiancee's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Scope and Content
Consists of programs, text, sheet music, plays, and LPs related to the work of Austrian musician and songwriter Jura Soyfer. Includes the sheet music and translation of a song entitled "Dachau Lied," by Jura Soyfer. Soyfer, an anti-fascist and playwright, was arrested in 1937 and briefly released beefore being arrested trying to cross the Austrian border to Switzerland. He was transported to Dachau and later to Buchenwald, where he died of typhus in February 1939.
People
- Soyfer, Jura, 1912-1939.
Genre
- Document
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