Stephan H. Lewy collection

Identifier: irn58699
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 2013 and 2015 by Stephan H. Lewy.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a camera, a prayer book, documents, photographs, and two memoirs relating to the experiences of Heinz Stephan Lewy before the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust in France, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

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Stephan H. Lewy papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn84550
- English
- 1939-2012
- folders 2
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of two pieces of written testimony entitled, "The year 1938....A year in my life I would like to forget," and "Return to Berlin, Germany After 58 Years," both written by Stephan Lewy. "The Year 1938" includes information about acquiring a prayer book and camera, along with images of each item (also part of the donation). Also includes a photograph of boys living in the Auerbach orphanage in Berlin, circa 1905; the train tickets and insurance his father and stepmother purchased to escape from Germany to France in 1939; a 1942 ORT certificate for training undertaken by Stephan in the...
Agfa Box 44 camera carried with a German Jewish boy on a Kindertransport to France
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn84551
- English
- overall: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 5.125 inches (13.018 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Agfa 44 box camera, or Preisbox, given to Heinz Stephan Lewy for his bar mitzvah in March 1938 in Berlin, Germany. He took it with him in July 1939 when he left on a Kindertransport to France. When Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933, Heinz was in an orphanage in Berlin, because his father Arthur was unable to care for Heinz by himself. In late 1933, Arthur was arrested because he was a Socialist and sent to Oranienburg concentration camp. He was beaten severely and had a heart attack, but was soon released. On March 11, 1938, Heinz became a bar mitzvah. Arthur was arrested for ...
Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn84552
- English
- 1935
- Updated 1 year ago
Prayer book given to Heinz Stephan Lewy for his 14th birthday by his friend Gerhard Rosenzweig (later Gerry Gerhard) when both youths were living in Quincy, France. They had arrived there on July 4, 1939, Kindertransport from Berlin, Germany, organized to save Jewish children from persecution by the Nazi dictatorship. They had previously lived in the Auerbach orphanage in Berlin. After Germany invaded France in May 1940, the boys and the other refugees fled south, but returned to Quincy after encountering German soldiers. In fall 1940, Quaker aid workers took them to Chateau de Chabannes in...

Stephan H. Lewy collection

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Stephan H. Lewy papers

Agfa Box 44 camera carried with a German Jewish boy on a Kindertransport to France

Prayer book