Schenkelbach and Feldbau family collection

Identifier
irn518518
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.359.1
Dates
1 Jan 1927 - 31 Dec 2006
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

oversize box

box

1

1

1 sound cassette,

1 videocassette,

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Janet Shenk donated her collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Oct. 4, 2006. She is the daughter of Otto and Margaret Feldbau Schenkelbach.

Scope and Content

Contains documents, passports, correspondence, and photographs related to the wartime experiences of the families of Otto Schenkelbach and of Margaret (Gretl) Feldbau, both originally of Vienna. Includes Otto's correspondence from his imprisonment in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps in 1938-1939, Gretl's correspondence regarding her 1938 immigration to the United States and her attempts to support the immigration efforts of both her parents and of Otto, and correspondence between Otto and Gretl. The couple married in New York in 1940. Also includes Otto's pre-war, wartime, and post-war scrapbook, a family photograph album, a video recording of an interview with Gretl about her experiences in pre-war Vienna, and an audio recording of Karl Neustadt, a friend of Otto's who was imprisoned with him, reading the diary he kept while in Dachau and Buchenwald.

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