Marcus (Mark) Tennenbaum papers
Extent and Medium
box
oversize folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Robert Tennenbaum, the son of Marcus (Mark) Tennenbaum, donated a copy of his father's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on August 20, 1998. The rest of the collection was added on Sep. 20, 2004.
Scope and Content
Contains photocopies of a handwritten memoir, 45 pages, about Mark Tennenbaum's experiences when the Nazis first occupied Vienna in March 1938 until he left on March 9, 1939, as well as documents containing information about the Tennenbaum family's emigration to the United States on the R.M.S. Queen Mary, which sailed on March 18, 1939. Also includes 91 photographs and copies of photographs of his family, his home, and his lumber business in downtown Vienna in the late 1930s.
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Document
- Photographs.