Fritz and Ilse Silten collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515347
• English
• boxes oversize boxes 6 3
• Updated 8 months ago

Consists of photographs, papers, and artifacts regarding the family history and experiences of the Silten and Teppich families, originally of Berlin, Germany. The majority of the collection consists of an extensive family history, with folders containing papers, regarding each member of the extended family, dating to the early 19th century. Also contains papers regarding the immediate family's life in Berlin under the Third Reich, flight to the Netherlands in 1938, deportation from Amsterdam, and time in Westerbork and Theresienstadt (including passports, work cards, and ration cards).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519057
• English
• 1943-1945
• folders 2
• Updated 8 months ago

Contains an unpublished manuscript in German by Fritz Joseph and another unpublished manuscript in German by Hoffman entitled "To Auschwitz December 1943" with accompanying translation by Gabriele Silten. Also includes copies of family documents and notes written by Ruth Gabriele Silten [donor].

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519058
• English
• 1944
• overall: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Ghetto watch cap that belonged to Fritz Joseph, an inmate at Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp who worked as a policeman there in 1944. Fritz and his wife, Betty, were deported from the Netherlands to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in July 1943. At the end of the year, they were sent to Theresienstadt. Then, at the end of 1944, they were transported to Auschwitz. Fritz was next sent to Meuselwitz labor camp where he was liberated by US troops on May 7, 1945. He was reunited with Betty and they returned to the Netherlands.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519059
• English
• overall: Height: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Drawing of a church in Terezin created on October 22, 1943, by Frantizek Zelenka, an inmate at Theresienstadt concentration camp. He gave the drawing to a fellow inmate, Fritz Silten. Frantizek was a scene painter for the camp’s theater and was forced to create art for the Germans at the camp. Works such as this drawing often were done by the artists in secret. Frantizek was an established theater designer when he was deported to Theresienstadt from Prague, Czechoslovakia. He eventually was sent to Auschwitz and died in the gas chamber on October 19, 1944.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519060
• English
• 1944-1945
• a: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 2.870 inches (7.29 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 4.120 inches (10.465 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Mica flakes from the glimmer [mica] factory near Theresienstadt where Ilse Silten was forced to work. The work of splitting the mineral mica into flakes created a dust that caused lung diseases among the workers. In 1939, Ilse, her husband, Fritz, and 10 year old daughter Ruth, fled Berlin for Amsterdam. Not long after Germany occupied Amsterdam in 1940, the family was sent to Westerbork transit camp. In January 1944, they were deported to Theresienstadt labor/ghetto camp in Czechoslovakia. The Germans abandoned Theresienstadt in May 1945. Ilse and her family returned to Amsterdam. She died...