Nathan and Edith Litvin collection

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Nathan and Edith Litvin papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn73465
- English
- 1945-1946
- box oversize boxes 1 2
- Updated 12 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...