Violet Dattner collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn177411
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Correspondence and documents relating to Wilhelm (Willy) and Violet Dattner (donor's parents). Willy Dattner (b. 1909 in Krakow) and Violet Fogel (b. c.1916 in Oradea, Romania) lived in Antwerp, Belgium, where Willy was a diamond merchant. In May 1940, after the German invasion of Belgium, Willy started to evacuate his large family to France. After overcoming many difficulties, arrests, and returning to Antwerp to pick up additional family members, Willy and Violet reached Spain and later sailed to Havana, Cuba. In March 1941, they arrived in New York where they joined Sigi Dattner (Willy's...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn594553
• English
• folders 7
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains handwritten notes of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-1965) written by Violet Dattner (donor's mother) as well as photographs, documents, and newspaper clippings of and from the trial.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn597276
• English
• overall: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 11.190 inches (28.423 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Map published by E. Kossoy, Munich, showing the locations of death camps in Poland and the Baltics as of the end of WWII.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn597277
• English
• overall: Height: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) | Width: 15.130 inches (38.43 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Map published by E. Kossoy, Munich, showing the locations of deportation routes in Eastern Europe.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn597280
• English
• overall: Height: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Map published by E. Kossoy, Munich, showing the locations of camps in the Central Europe during the first half of 1945.