Ursula Lenneberg Pawel and Siegmund Brünell family collection

Identifier: irn522404
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522404

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Ursula Lenneberg Pawel.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of Theresienstadt scrip and a postcard relating to the experiences of Ursula Lenneberg and her family in Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust and of photographs relating to the family of her stepfather, Siegmund Bruenell, in prewar Germany and in Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust.

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Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522500
- English
- overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, obtained by 17 year old Ursula Lenneberg in 1943 while an inmate of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia. Ursula considered this fake money produced to fool the Red Cross that camp conditions were decent and healthy. Ursula received a deportation notice in July 1942 in Dusseldorf, Germany, where she lived with her family. They insisted on going with her to the camp. Her father Otto and brother Walter, 12, were allowed, but her mother, Lina, born a Christian, was not. In Theresienstadt in summer 1944, Otto received a deportation notice and Ursula insi...
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522501
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, obtained by 17 year old Ursula Lenneberg in 1943 while an inmate of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia. Ursula considered this fake money produced to fool the Red Cross that camp conditions were decent and healthy. Ursula received a deportation notice in July 1942 in Dusseldorf, Germany, where she lived with her family. They insisted on going with her to the camp. Her father Otto and brother Walter, 12, were allowed, but her mother, Lina, born a Christian, was not. In Theresienstadt in summer 1944, Otto received a deportation notice and Ursula ins...

Ursula Lenneberg Pawel and Siegmund Brünell family collection

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Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate

Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate