Evelyn Goldstein Woods family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516158
• English
• overall: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Engraved silver brooch found by Herta Goldstein in a drawer at a displaced persons prison camp in February 1945 in Nemmersdorf, East Prussia. She and her 7 year old daughter Evy were held in the camp by the Soviet Army after the defeat of Germany at the Battle of Koenigsberg. Herta and Evy were German Jews living in hiding under assumed identities. Because they spoke German the Soviets assumed they were spies; they did not believe the women were Jews because they thought all the Jews had been killed. Herta later had her Evy's initials, EG, engraved on the brooch. Herta, her husband Ernst, a...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522526
• English
• box 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection consists of papers pertaining to Evelyn Goldstein and her parents, Herta Loschinski Goldstein and Ernst Goldstein, as well as the following family members and friends: Gertrude Darmann, Herbert Beutler, Heinz and Helga Ross [Rosenthal], Ruth Loschinski, and Hildegard Kniess. Also included in the papers are letters written after World War II to Evelyn Goldstein from Dr. Elisabeth Abegg, a German Quaker who helped to hide Evelyn Goldstein during the war.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524050
• English
• 1942-1944
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains original photographs of Ruth Loschinski Thal, a nurse who was in Terezin, Auschwitz and later died in Bergen Belsen; one photo depicts Ruth in the Jewish Hospital in Berlin, July 1942. Also includes a postcard sent from Ruth in Terezin to her family's German neighbors in Berlin dated July 10, 1944; these neighbors sent food packages to Ruth.