Fritz G. Cohen collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Fritz G. Cohen received the postcards from Gioacchino Gramegna of Genoa, Italy in 1995. Gramegna is the nephew of Hete Vanderborght. Fritz G. Cohen donated the materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 1997.
Scope and Content
The Fritz G. Cohen collection consists of 37 handwritten postcards, in German, sent from Hannover, Germany, dated 1940-1942, from Lina Cohen, the donor's grandmother, or Margarete Liepmann, or Bertha Abrahamsohn, the donor's aunt, and sent to Hete or Henry Vaderborght or Mimi Lambucht in Brussels (Belgium), and to Dr. J. Gramegna in Genoa, Italy. All the postcards are addressed to "My dear child" or "My dear children" and describe daily family life in Hannover, Germany. The death certificate is from Terezin and dated March 30, 1943; it states that Lina Cohen died in Terezin February 20, 1943.
System of Arrangement
The Fritz G. Cohen collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Abrahamsohn, Bertha.
- Vaderborght, Henry.
- Cohen, Lina.
- Liepmann, Margarete.
- Vaderborght, Hete.
- Lambucht, Mimi.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Hannover (Germany)
- Jews--Germany.
- Families.
- Germany.
- Czech Republic.
Genre
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Identification documents.