Isabella Leitner collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Creator(s)
- Isabella Leitner
Biographical History
Isabella Leitner (b. 1921) was born in Kisvárda, Hungary and survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1945 and settled in New York City.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The material was collected by Isabella Leitner after the Holocaust and while writing "Fragments of Isabella." The materials were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via Hadassah Rosensaft.
Scope and Content
Consists of various materials concerning Isabella Katz Leitner and her family. The documents relate specifically to the emigration of the Katz family members to the United States and the search for other family members who were left behind in Germany. Also included is an audiotape containing a speech by Hajo Kolshorn, a former junior officer of the Nazi German navy. The speech is one in a series from the "History as Recollection" program at Marietta College. The speech discusses antisemitism.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Leitner, Isabella.
- Katz, Menyhert.
- Katz, Csicsa.
- Katz, Jolan.
Subjects
- Emigration and immigration--Hungary.
- Emigration and immigration--Germany.
- Hungary.
- Emigration and immigration--United States.
- Jews, Hungarian--United States.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Jews--Hungary.
Genre
- Registers.
- Document