Heini Halberstam collection
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Heini Halberstam
Biographical History
Judith Halberstam was transported from Prage on June 10, 1942 and sent to the labor camp in Ujazdow. Her name, “Halberstamova, Judita, 7. VI. 1896, 10. VI. 1942", appears on the memorial wall of the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague, where the names of 77/97 77,197? Bohemian an Moravian victims of the Holocaust are inscribed.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from Heini Halberstam on Sep. 23, 1999. Mr. Halberstam has kept the diminutive "Heini" as his first name as a tribute to his mother.
Scope and Content
Consists of correspondence from Judith Halberstam, originally of Prague, Czechoslovakia, to her son, Heini Halberstam, who left on a Kindertransport to England in April 1939. The correspondence, which was diverted through family in Belgium, New York, and Zurich, was sent prior to Judith's deportation on June 10, 1942 as part of a reprisal for the death of Reinhard Heydrich. Includes identification documents for Heini and a pre-war black and white photograph of Judith.
People
- Halberstam, Judith, 1896-1942.
Genre
- Document