Goldstein family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn155286
• English
• 1939-1945
• box 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The Goldstein family letters contain correspondence addressed to the Goldstein family, primarily while they were living in Brussels, Belgium. The letters are mainly from Regina’s family living in Debica, Poland, including her parents Josef and Cilli Suessmann and her brother Moritz, among others. Several letters are from Opole, Poland. Two letters are written from Jack while he was away at Maaseik. Also included are some letters from the Jewish Committee in Lublin, and translations for many of the letters.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518634
• English
• 1939-1945
• overall: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Tea cozy used in Belgium by Regina Goldstein, the mother of twin boys, Bruno and Jack, to store correspondence and documents written by Goldstein family members in Debica and Opole, Poland, who were unable to escape their German occupied country. Most of them did not survive the Holocaust. Bruno and Jack were 6 years old at the time and used some of the letters for drawing paper. Their family fled Austria in 1939. Their father was deported to Gurs internment camp after the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940. The family avoided deportation in 1942,but at the end of 1942, their mother c...