Elizabeth Trausel family collection
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hana Rehakova
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Hana Rehakova donated the Elizabeth Trausel family collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992. Hana Rehakova is the daughter of Elisabeth Trausel.
Scope and Content
The Elisabeth Trausel family collection consists of postcards sent to Elizabeth Trausel from relatives in the Theresienstadt ghetto. The contents of the postcards largely relate to receiving food parcels. The collection also includes ration cards issued in the ghetto, ghetto scrip, and a printed map of the ghetto.
System of Arrangement
The Elizabeth Trausel family collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Pick, Irwin.
- Pick, Hedwig.
- Deutsch, Berta.
- Trausel, Eva.
- Polacek, Josef.
- Kassler, Berta.
- Polacek, Leo.
- Trausel, Elizabeth.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Food relief.
- Holocaust victims.
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- Families.
Genre
- Scrip.
- Postcards.
- Document
- Correspondence.