Dotsch family papers
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
- Levinsohn-Dotsch, Carla.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Netherlands.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--Netherlands.
Genre
- Postcards.
- Letters.
- Birth certificates.
- Photographs.
- Document