Stefan Zweig suicide letter

Identifier
irn516680
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.15
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn516680

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Samuel Meerbaum. To honor the well known intellectual Stefan Zweig.

The letter was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Samuel Meerbaum in 1998.

Scope and Content

This letter contains the text of the suicide declaration of the novelist Stefan Zweig, who took his life while in exile in Petrópolis, Brazil, in February 1942. The statement at the end of the first paragraph reads as follows:.".my spiritual homeland Europe, self-destructed." This version is likely a hand-written copy, from an unknown source. The original version of this letter is owned by the National Library of Israel.

People

  • Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942.

Subjects

  • Refugees, Jewish--Brazil--Petrópolis.
  • Suicide--Brazil--Petrópolis.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Brazil--Petrópolis.

Genre

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