Julie Keefer family collection

Identifier: irn544514
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn544514

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 and 2017 by Julie Keefer, granddaughter of Aisik Eisen and adopted daughter of Thea Klestadt.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a tin cup, documents, a manuscript, and photographs relating to the experiences of Aisik Eisen and his granddaughters Tola and Jula (later Julie Keefer) during the Holocaust in the ghetto and in hiding with the assistance of Lucia Nowicka, as well as a hat and table runner brought by Thea Klestadt from Dusseldorf, Germany, to the United States in 1938.

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Woodcut portrait of Leo Baeck owned by a Jewish Polish girl
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn169860
- English
- 1955
- overall: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 6.625 inches (16.827 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Woodcut portrait of Leo Baeck, owned by Julie Keefer, a Jewish Polish girl who was in hiding during the Holocaust with her grandfather. Baeck was a Rabbi and intellectual theologian who emerged as an important symbolic and political leader of German Jewry before and during World War II. Baeck helped other Jews emigrate from Germany and fought for Jewish rights. In 1943 he was deported to Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto labor camp, where he gave lectures on philosophy and religion and became a leader among the camp’s Jews. In June 1941, when Julie was two months old, her hometown, Lvov, Pola...
Aizik Eisen papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47415
- English
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Documents, photographs, and a personal narrative regarding the Holocaust experiences of Aizik Eisen and his two grandaughters Julia and Tola Weinstock in Lwów, Poland [Lviv, Ukraine] and the assistance their family received from Lusia Nowicka, a non-Jewish Polish woman who hid them. Included is a post-war manuscript written by Aizik about his Holocaust experiences. The manuscript is in Yiddish, and includes an English translation. Documents include Aizik’s former concentration inmate identification card, his United States Declaration of Intention form, and naturalization certificate. Also i...
Tin mug issued to a Jewish girl and her family at a displaced persons camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn564136
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Tin mug issued to Julie (Jula) Weinstock, 5, her grandfather Aizik Eisen, and rescuer Lucia Nowicka in Wegscheid displaced persons camp, known as Camp Tyler, in Linz, Austria in 1946. In June 1941, when Julie was two months old, her hometown, Lvov, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) was occupied by German troops during their invasion of the Soviet Union. In July several thousand Jews were massacred in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In November, Jula and her family were forced into the Lvov ghetto and her grandfather, Aizik was taken to Jaktorow labor camp. Aizik escaped and in late 1943, he rescued J...

Julie Keefer family collection

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Woodcut portrait of Leo Baeck owned by a Jewish Polish girl

Aizik Eisen papers

Tin mug issued to a Jewish girl and her family at a displaced persons camp