Lubran family collection

Identifier: irn594556
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn594556

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Bernard Lubran, the son of Walter Lubran and nephew of Alice Lubran Plocki.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a wedding dress, restitution paperwork, correspondence, and clippings relating to the experiences of Walter Lubran and his sister Alice Lubran Plocki before, during, and after the Holocaust in Europe and the United States.

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Wedding dress shipped to the United States by a German Jewish woman murdered at Riga
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn594839
- English
- overall: Height: 76.000 inches (193.04 cm) | Width: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Cream silk wedding dress, worn by Alice Lubranitsky Plocki, a German Jewish woman, and shipped to the United States prior to her deportation and murder at the Riga ghetto in 1941. Alice married Robert Plocki in the early 1930s. The couple lived in Berlin where Robert manufactured women’s dresses. Robert’s brother, who lived in New York, sent an affidavit for the couple to immigrate to the United States. Thinking she would soon be able to immigrate, Alice had her dress shipped ahead. However, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, Robert was arrested, imprisoned in Sachsenhausen, given prisoner ...

Lubran family collection

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Wedding dress shipped to the United States by a German Jewish woman murdered at Riga