Lou Dunst 80th Birthday Celebration videocassette

Identifier
irn519080
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.300
Dates
1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2006
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn519080

Extent and Medium

folder

1

1 videocassette,

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Estelle Dunst donated this videocassette to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on July 26, 2007.

Scope and Content

Consists of one videocassette of footage of the 80th birthday celebration of Lou Dunst, held in San Diego, CA on March 5, 2006. At the party, Mr. Dunst, a Holocaust survivor, was reunited with a liberator of the Ebensee concentration camp, Robert Persinger, who liberated Mr. Dunst and his brother Irving in May 1945. Mr. Dunst was also presented with the gift of a memorial Torah scroll. Also includes clippings of the television news accounts of the party.

Subjects

  • Concentration camps--Austria--Ebensee.

Genre

  • Document
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