Alfred Eisner papers
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Alfred Eisner
- Artur Eisner
Biographical History
Alfred Eisner (1932-2015) was born on 5 April 1932 in Teplice-Šanov, Czechoslovakia (Teplice, Czech Republic) to Joseph and Maria Eisner. He was deported to Theresienstadt in 1944. After liberation he was united with his family and later immigrated to the United States.
Artur Eisner was born in Cologne, Germany, to a Jewish family. During the Holocaust, he was imprisoned in several Nazi concentration camps, including Poznán and Auschwitz-Birkenau. He survived World War II, immigrated to the United States, and settled in New York State.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The two letters and nine postcards were written by Artur Eisner from DAF labor camps to his family and a friend from the years 1942 to 1943. Artur Eisner's nephew, Alfred Eisner, gave them to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 1993. They were transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives the following month.
Scope and Content
Consists of private correspondence. The letters were written by Artur Eisner to members of his family and a friend in Prague, Czechoslovakia, from DAF labor camps where he was being interned. One of the DAF Camps was in Poznán, Poland.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is chronological
People
- Artur Eisner
- Alfred Eisner
- Eisner, Artur.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Poznań (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Poznań (Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Genre
- Document
- Correspondence.