Werner J. Lipton collection

Identifier: irn501553
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Consists of two texts: "Fragments of a Childhood and Youth: Autobiogrpahical Memoirs," written by the donor, and "Toward the Abyss: Cards and Letters: Mindelheim-Lublin, 1941-43," translated by the donor.

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Fragments of a childhood and youth autobiographical memories
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn506453
- English
- 1995
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains a memoir of Werner Jacob Lipton (b. Liebschüz) in which he describes life in prewar Mindelheim, Germany; how life changed for Jews after 1938; the boarding schools he attended when Jewish children were banned from German public schools; his parents' decision in 1939 to send him to Switzerland where relatives could provide for him; his time in Swiss Kinderheime (children's homes) in Herrliberg and Männedorf; and his postwar life in the United States to which he immigrated in 1946. The memoir includes captioned family photographs, hand-drawn maps of southern Germany and Switzerland...
Toward the abyss cards and letters : Mindelheim-Lublin, 1941-1943
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn506454
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains a collection of photocopied letters and postcards, most of which are to Werner Jacob Lipton (born Liebschütz) from his parents, Fanni and Jakob Liebschütz, his aunt and uncle, Max and Berta Bach, and his grandmother, Mina Liebschütz, and which deal with efforts to emigrate and family matters. In 1939, following increasing restrictions on German Jews, Werner's parents sent him to Switzerland where he lived in Kinderheime (children's homes). Fanni and Jakob Liebschütz were deported from Mindelheim, Germany, to the ghetto in Piaski, Poland, in March 1942; by June 1942 they were in...

Werner J. Lipton collection

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Fragments of a childhood and youth autobiographical memories

Toward the abyss cards and letters : Mindelheim-Lublin, 1941-1943