Letters concerning Betty Katz and the home for the blind in Terezin
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Betty F. Katz
Biographical History
Betty Katz was the director of the Institute for Jewish Blinds in Berlin-Steglitz, Germany, before the Holocaust. She was deported to the Terezín concentration camp on 14 Sept. 1942 along with many blind persons from the institute in Berlin. Katz died in Terezín on 3 June 1944. Miss Sommerfeld was Katz's assistant at the Institute of Blinds in Berlin. She volunteered to be deported with Katz and the institute patients and was with Katz at the time of her death in Terezín. Sommerfeld escaped to Swtizerland in Feb. 1945
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The letters were received by Lothar Katz [donor's father] in the 1940s. The original letters (with English translations) and two photographs were given to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Oct. 1991.
Scope and Content
Consists of original letters (accompanied by English translations) concerning Betty Falk Katz and the home for blind persons in Theresienstadt (Terezin). The letters describe the conditions for Jews in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust, the deportation of Katz and patients of the Institute for Jewish Blinds to Terezin, and the death of Katz in Terezin. Also included are photographs of Katz's grave in Theresienstadt and a sketch of Katz completed by her son, Lothar Katz.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Sommerfeld.
- Katz, Betty Falk.
- Katz, Peter.
Corporate Bodies
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Jewish Home for the Blind in Berlin-Stegliz
Subjects
- Physically handicapped.
- Research institutes
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Health facilities.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document