Widerman family papers
Extent and Medium
box
1
2 negatives,
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Brenda Holland Hancock and Barbara Holland Scott in memory of their mother Nicole Widerman Holland and the Widerman family
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Barbara Holland Scott and Brenda Holland Hancock.
Scope and Content
Documents and photographs relating to the Widerman family. Documents relating to Nicole Widerman's service in the CAVF Corps Auxilaire Volontaire Feminen during WWII. Three souvenir booklets from her comrades, marriage certificate, copy of a letter thrown by Robert Widerman from a train to Auschwitz. Photographs of the Widerman family before the war in Paris, France; Jewish children at a summer camp in Colleville, France; wartime in Marseille; after the war in Paris, France and after her arrival in Texas with her husband Bruce Edward Holland and their two daughters Barbara and Brenda; and surviving Widerman family in France and the US.
Genre
- Letters.
- Photographs.
- Document
- Certificates.