Nathan and Edith Litvin collection

Identifier: irn90201
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Naomi Litvin.

Scope and Content

Consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook pages documenting the experiences of Nathan Litvin and Edith Festinger Litvin. Includes pre-war and post-war photographs of the Festinger family, documents related to Edith's immediate post-war life, and correspondence, documents and photographs of the 1946 weddings (one in Paris and one in the United States) of Nathan, a Jewish-American soldier and Edith, a survivor of Auschwitz. Also includes a large spiral bound book of scans, descriptions, and narrative of the collection and DVDs of film footage which Nathan Litvin produced of his trip to Europe in the summer of 1946 to marry Edith and bring her back to the United States.

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Nathan and Edith Litvin papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn73465
- English
- 1945-1946
- box oversize boxes 1 2
- Updated 9 months ago
The Nathan and Edith Litvin collection document the marriage of a Jewish American soldier and an Auschwitz survivor, likely one of the first “war brides” to come to the United States as such. The collection includes some pre-war photographs of the Festinger family, and of Edith Festinger and her sister Hilda (and some of other siblings) after liberation, as well as some documents attesting to Edith’s wartime experiences and post-war work. However, the majority of the collection relates to Nathan and Edith’s marriage in Paris in July 1946 and return to the United States, where they held a re...

Nathan and Edith Litvin collection

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Nathan and Edith Litvin papers