Dotsch family papers

Identifier
irn514883
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.115.1
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Dutch
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Carla Levinsohn-Dotsch

The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Carla Levinsohn-Dotsch.

Scope and Content

The papers contain correspondence, documents and photographs concerning the Dotsch family during the Holocaust in the Netherlands, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. The papers primarily pertain to Carla Levinsohn-Dotsch, youngest of three daughters, all placed in hiding, who was denounced and transported to Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt concentration camps. In Theresienstadt she was adopted by the Boas family, with whom she was liberated, but was later reunited with her birth family. Also includes photographs documenting the Dotsch family in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

People

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