Lore Anthes Schwarz family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn692777
• English
• a: Height: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Width: 10.375 inches (26.353 cm) | Depth: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) b: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Wooden jewelry box with Lore Anthes’ initials made by her grandfather, Georg Anthes, to hide a postcard from Regina Hess, dated April 7, 1944, and sent from Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. The box had a secret drawer that opened from the side so that anyone examining it would not see anything odd on the front. Lore lived with her parents, Georg and Elizabeth, brother, Guenther, and grandparents, Georg and Elise, in Sprendlingen, Germany. Her family members were evangelicals and staunch Social Democrats who were opposed to the anti-Jewish decrees being pas...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn699020
• English
• 1938-1944
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The Georg and Elise Anthes papers include a postcard purportedly sent by Regina Hess (1880-1944) from Theresienstadt to Georg and Elise Anthes in Sprendlingen, Germany, and two emigration documents sent by the State Department to the family of Julius Bendheim (1892-1938). Regina Hess was deported from Darmstadt to Theresienstadt in September 1942. The postcard signed by Regina Hess is dated April 7, 1944, and it states that she is well, that she would like to hear from the Anthes family, and that she enjoyed the package including cake that the Anthes’ had sent her. She asks about their chil...