Degen family collection

Identifier: irn724355
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724355

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022 by Laura Cohen.

Scope and Content

The collection contains cassette tapes of interviews between the donor's mother, Helen Degen [Degenfisz] Cohen and her parents, Blima [Bluma] and Josef Degen [Degenfisz] after the War as well as with her rescuer, Maria Szumska. It also includes postwar letters written between Helen and Maria. There is also a booklet likely used after the War inscribed with Hebrew and Polish [appears to be educational], likely kept in the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp.

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Helen Degen Cohen papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn737026
- English
- folders 6
- Updated 9 months ago
Consists of postwar letters between the donor's mother, Helen Degen Cohen (formerly Halina Degenfisz, b. 1934) and Maria Szumska, who rescued Helen by hiding her in her home in Lida, Belarus (formerly Lida, White Russia) when Helen was seven years old after she and her parents, Blima and Josef Degen (formerly Degenfisz), were incarcerated in the Lida ghetto. Also includes photographs, other documents, and a booklet inscribed with Hebrew and Polish that was likely used in the Zeilsheim DP Camp in West Germany after Helen reunited with her parents, and before they immigrated to the United Sta...

Degen family collection

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Helen Degen Cohen papers