Helen Tichauer papers
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Helen S. Tichauer
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Helen Tichauer
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by the Estate of Helen Tichauer.
Scope and Content
The Helen Tichauer papers consist of subject files and a photograph album of Feldafing displaced persons camp, clippings regarding Auschwitz war crimes trials in Wuppertal, Germany, and a small amount of correspondence. The photograph album was assembled by Helen Tichauer, a survivor of Auschwitz, who was deported there from Bratislava in 1942, and lived in Feldafing after the war. It depicts Helen, her husband Erwin Tischauer, and numerous friends and activities associated with the camp. Correspondence includes letters received from historian Konrad Kwiet and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum employees Bonnie Gurewitsch and Joan Ringelheim.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged as two series. Series 1. Feldafing displaced persons camp, 1945-circa 1995 Series 2. Correspondence and clippings, 1987-1997
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Estate of Helen Tichauer
People
- Tichauer, Helen, 1918-2018.
Corporate Bodies
- Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews--Slovakia--Bratislava.
- Displaced persons camps.
- Starnberg (Germany)
Genre
- Document
- Photograph albums.
- Letters.