de Groot family autograph album
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 6.875 inches (17.463 cm) | Width: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Louis de Groot
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Louis de Groot
Scope and Content
Hand covered autograph and poetry notebook used by Rachel (Chelly) de Groot while in hiding in the Netherlands. It was recovered by her brother Louis after the war.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Rectangular notebook with cardboard covers covered in blue, red, pink white, and yellow flowers. A small blue cloth hexagon with the word Poesie is adhered on the front center. Inside are bound unlined pages with handwritten inscriptions and adhered cut out pictures.
Subjects
- Deportees--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--Netherlands--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust victims--Netherlands--Biography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Persecution--Netherlands--Biography.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Netherlands--Biography.
Genre
- Document
- Photo albums.