Lev Aronson collection

Identifier
irn515559
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.495
Dates
1 Jan 1979 - 31 Dec 1994
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Selma Mennis donated this information about Lev Aronson, a family friend and teacher, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Sep. 24, 2004.

Scope and Content

Contains of one copyprint of Lev Aronson playing the cello as a young man and numerous articles about Mr. Aronson's career as a cellist and experiences during the Holocaust. He was born in Munich Germany, and raised in Riga, Latvia, where he became the principal cellist of the Riga Symphony before World War II. Mr. Aronson spent four years in various German and Soviet concentration camps before emigrating to the United States in 1948 and settling in Dallas, Texas.

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.