Erika Rybeck collection

Identifier: irn524336
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Erika Rybeck.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a drawing, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Erika Schulhof and her family in Vienna, Austria, and Erika's experience as a Kindertransport refugee in the United Kingdom before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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Erika Rybeck papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn519130
- English
- folders 2
- Updated 1 year ago
Collection consists of documents and correspondence concerning the Schulhof family (donor's family) in Vienna, Austria detailing family's efforts to flee Nazi occupation. Includes materials illustrating donor's experiences in the United Kingdom and post-war documentation about the fate of the Schulhof family; in German and English.
Girl pointing at the moon depicted in a sketch by a Kindertransport refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn519131
- English
- 1938-1941
- overall: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Drawing created by Erika Schulhof during her participation in an art therapy group in the United States after the war. Erika explains that: "This recalls my father's comforting words before I left Austria. He said we would both be looking at the same moon from different parts of the world. So then, as drawn, I look at the moon in Aberdeen, Scotland, when Nazi planes are flying overhead and there are machine gun bullet holes on the ground, but I look at the moon and think of my father." Erika was the only child of an assimilated Jewish couple, Dr. Friedrich and Gertrude Schulhof. Her father ...
Erika Rybeck papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn524337
- English
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Erika Rybeck papers include documents and correspondence from the 19th and 20th century documenting the Schulhof family and their ancestors in Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The papers were kept by surviving family member in Austria during the Holocaust and later entrusted to Erika. The papers also include correspondence Erika's parents, Gertrude and Friedrich Schulhof, sent to her in the United Kingdom from Vienna between 1939 and 1941.

Erika Rybeck collection

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Erika Rybeck papers

Girl pointing at the moon depicted in a sketch by a Kindertransport refugee

Erika Rybeck papers