Mascha Benya Matz scrapbook

Identifier
irn522954
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.311.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522954

Extent and Medium

box

1

Creator(s)

  • Mascha Benya-Matz

Biographical History

Mascha Benya Matz was born Mascha Benyakonsky in 1908 in Virbalis, Lithuania. In 1931 she moved to Berlin, Germany, to study music. With Hitler's rise to power, she performed with the Kulturbund, an organization for Jewish performers who only entertained Jewish audiences. In 1938 she immigrated to the United States via Cherbourg, France.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mascha Benya-Matz

The scrapbook was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Mascha Benya Matz.

Scope and Content

The scrapbook consists of photographs and clippings about Mascha Benya Matz's life in Germany as an opera singer with the Kulturbund organization.

People

  • Matz, Mascha Benya.

Corporate Bodies

  • Jüdischer Kulturbund

Subjects

  • Jewish entertainers--Germany.
  • Opera singers--Germany--1930-1940.

Genre

  • Scrapbooks.
  • Document
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