Frieda and Max Reinach diary
Extent and Medium
folders
3
42 digital images, TIFF
10 DVD,
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded Save Their Stories campaign.
The Frieda and Max Reinach diary was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Ilana Schwartz (a granddaughter of the diary authors) in Sept.1999. In October 2002, Ilana Schwartz donated additionally three photographs relating to the Frieda and Max Reinach diary. Henry Mayer, former Chief Archivist at the United States Holocaust Museum Archives, is a member of the Reinach family.
Scope and Content
Contains a handwritten diary by Frieda (née Schwarzschild, 1887–1942) and Marcus (Max, 1878–1942) Reinach. Frieda and Max Reinach kept a diary in Berlin from September 1, 1939 to October 24, 1942. On October 26, 1942, they were deported to Riga, and later Kaiserwald concentration camp where they were murdered. The diary describes their life under the Nazi occupation. The collection also includes an English translation, a short history of how the diary reached the United States, and three photographs of the Reinach family members: Ilana Schwartz with her mother, Ilana Schwartz with her father and the grave site of Ilana's mother's aunt, Berta. Berta, who had childhood polio and was wheelchair bound, was the only Holocaust survivor of the Reinach family. Berta had been the subject of medical experimentation during the war.
People
- Schwartz, Ilana, 1938-
- Reinach, Frieda, 1887-1942.
- Koshland, Trude (Miriam)
- Reinach, Marcus (Max), 1878-1942.
- Blau, Lilli.
Subjects
- Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Diaries.
- Document