Steinbach family letters
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Rudi Steinbach
Biographical History
Rudi Steinbach was a German Jew who emigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1939. He later immigrated to the United States.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The donor assembled the materials in this collection, comprised principally of correspondence exchanged among Steinbach family members and between Steinbach family members and others. In Mar. 1992, he gave the materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections and Acquisitions Department, which turned them over to Museum's Research Institute Archives that same month while retaining some additional materials sent by the donor at the same time (ref. 11 Mar. 1992 memo from Krain to Chamberlin in the Donor File). According to the donor, the three otherwise blank sheets of paper in the collection, bearing the signature "Gustav Israel Steinbach," were intended to be used for applications for immigration.
Scope and Content
Consists of letters, written from March 1939 to September 1943, exchanged, for the most part, between Walter and Hans Steinbach. The letters contain information about the attempts of Walter and Hans Steinbach to rescue their father, Gustav Israel Steinbach, from Bełżyce (apparently a reference to the ghetto of that name) near Lublin, Poland.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is chronological
People
- Steinbach, Hans.
- Steinbach, Rudi.
- Steinbach, Gustav Israel.
- Steinbach, Walter.
Corporate Bodies
- Great Britain. Royal Air Force
- International Committee of the Red Cross
Subjects
- Palestine.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Bełżyce.
- Netherlands.
- Lublin (Poland)
- Jews--Germany.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Deportation.
- Poland.
- Bełżyce (Poland)
- Jews--Poland.
- Concentration camps.
Genre
- Document
- Letters.