Neuman family papers
Extent and Medium
folders
oversize folders
5
2
Creator(s)
- Neuman family
Biographical History
Beatrice Rada and Erika Eckstut were born in 1924 and 1928 in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia, to Ephraim Neuman and Dora (Dolly) Neuman (nee Geller). The family moved to Stanestie, Romania (Nyzhni Stanivtsi, Ukraine) in 1930, and Ephraim Neuman became mayor. Following a massacre of Jewish residents in 1941, the family fled to Chernivt︠s︡i where they were forced into the ghetto. Erika and Beatrice obtained false papers to escape the ghetto and fled to Kiev in 1943, where Erika worked in a clinic. Near the end of the war, a nurse mistook Beatrice for a German and informed on her to the NKVD, so the sisters decided to move to Czechoslovakia. Ephraim and Dora Neuman survived the war in Bucharest, but Ephraim died of natural causes shortly after liberation. Erika immigrated to the United States in 1960.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Erika Eckstut
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Erika Eckstut and Beatrice Rada donated the Neuman family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2007. Accessions previously cataloged as 1993.52, 1998.16, 1998.A.0132, 2002.73.1, 2004.337, 2006.389.1, and 2007.387 have been incorporated into this collection.
Scope and Content
The Neuman family papers consist of photographs of Erika and Beatrice Neuman, their family, and classmates; a list of victims from Nyzhni Stanivtsi, Ukraine (Stanestie, Romania); letters from Ephraim Neuman to Max Neuman about a massacre in Nyzhni Stanivtsi, Ukraine and about the Chernivt︠s︡i ghetto; Chernivt︠s︡i ghetto identification cards for Beatrice and Erika Neuman; and clippings about Erika's reunion with her mother in America in 1960.
System of Arrangement
The Neuman family papers are arranged as a single series: I. Neuman family papers, 1923-1960.
Subjects
- Nyzhni Stanivtsi (Ukraine)
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Chernivt︠s︡i.
- Jews--Ukraine--Nyzhni Stanivtsi.
- Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
Genre
- Document
- Registers.
- Photographs.