Henry and Edith Wertheimer collection
Extent and Medium
folders
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Edith Wertheimer. This gift made in memory of Dr. Henry Wertheimer.
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by the Estate of Edith Wertheimer.
Scope and Content
Collection of letters written by Heinz Ludwig Wertheimer (b. May 22, 1922 in Hamburg, Germany). He was sent by his parents Dr. Max and Rosel Wertheimer to England on the Kindertransport. The parents joined their son Lutz in August 1939 and a year later they immigrated to the US. using a false identity of Edith Adler (b. 1924 in Ulm, Germany) issued under the name "Edith Aubert" who was a member of the French underground.
Subjects
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Great Britain.
Genre
- Document
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