Seymour Reitman collection
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Seymour G. Reitman
Biographical History
Seymour G. Reitman served as a soldier during World War II.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Seymour Reitman
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Seymour Reitman doanted the Seymour Reitman collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Scope and Content
The Seymour Reitman collection consists of handwritten notes made by survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the Wildflecken on Danube (SS training camp) camp given to Seymour Reitman, a member of the US Army, shortly after liberation, circa 1945. Among the survivors were Jewish performers from a Yiddish Theater in Berlin, Germany who had been at Buchenwald concentration camp performing for the SS. The collection includes names and addresses of survivors, and testimony, in Yiddish, of a survivor named Yakov Leukovits, born in Skernievits (Skierniewice, Poland) addressed to E. Wolby of Los Angeles, CA, about the known fate of family members. Some notes were written on camp scrip.
System of Arrangement
The Seymour Reitman collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Reitman, Seymour.
Corporate Bodies
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Wildflecken (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Germany.
- Displaced persons--Europe.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Yiddish theater.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document