Meta Sternberg Adler collection

Identifier
irn514003
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.307
Dates
1 Jan 1903 - 31 Dec 1966
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Meta Sternberg-Adler was born on May 29, 1903, in Germany, and attended the Portuguese-Jewish Hospital nursing school in Amsterdam; she graduated in 1933. In 1941, she fled by ship to England, where she spent the war, leaving behind her parents, who were killed in Sobibór in March 1943. In 1948, she left England and moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as a nurse until her death in 1999.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Hildegard Lewis, cousin of Mrs. Meta Sternberg-Adler, donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Aug. 24, 2003.

Scope and Content

Contains documents relating to the life of Meta Sternberg-Adler, including her birth certificate, family correspondence, emigration documents, naturalization papers, postcards, newspaper clippings, curriculum vitaes, and family history papers.

People

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Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.