Heinz Max and Jetty Werthamer Newbeck families collection

Identifier: irn556057
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn556057

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Reginald Newbeck, son of Heinz Max and Jetty Newbeck.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of two prayer book, documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the experiences of Heinz Max and Jetty Werthamer Neubeck (later Newback) and their families, the Neubacks in Dortmund, Germany, and the Werthamers, originally from Kolomea, Poland, as well as Heinz and Jetty's experiences during the Holocaust in Shanghai, China, and their postwar emigration, with their son Reginald, to the United States in 1947.

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Werthammer and Neubeck families collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn548150
- English
- box 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the Neubeck family in Dortmund, Germany, and the Werthamer family, originally from Kolomea, Poland. Heinz Neubeck (donor’s father, b. 1912) was arrested on Kristallnacht alongside 600 other Dortmund Jews; he was released on November 24, 1938 after a large “contribution” was paid for his return home. Heinz and Jetty Werthamer Neubeck (donor’s mother, b. 1912) left Germany on December 31, 1938 for Italy. A month later, on January 29, 1939 they sailed from Trieste on board S/S Conte Verde to Shanghai. They may have received fi...
Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn556064
- English
- 1945
- Updated 7 months ago
Prayer book owned by the Newbeck family. Heinz and Jetty Newbeck fled Nazi Germany for Shangahi, China, in 1939 and a few years after the war ended in 1945, emigrated, with their son Reginald, to the United States in 1947.
Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn556065
- English
- 1893
- Updated 7 months ago
Prayer book owned by the Newbeck family. Heinz and Jetty Newbeck fled Nazi Germany for Shangahi, China, in 1939 and a few years after the war ended in 1945, emigrated, with their son Reginald, to the United States in 1947.

Heinz Max and Jetty Werthamer Newbeck families collection

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Werthammer and Neubeck families collection

Prayer book

Prayer book