Elise Schapira papers

Identifier
irn608007
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.157.5
  • 1992.A.0009
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1991
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

3

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Elise Schapira (1920-1998) was born in Bad Brückenau, Germany to Max Goldschmidt (1892-?) and Sibylla Goldschmidt (nee Klein, 1891-?). When Jews were forced to go to segregated schools, her family sent her to Würzburg. In 1939 they sent her to London where she worked as a maid. In 1940 she received her United States immigration quota number and arrived in New York in April. Meanwhile her parents and her brother were deported to Riga and perished.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eve Mannes

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Eve Mannes donated the Elise Schapira papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 and 1992. The accession formerly cataloged as 1992.A.0009 was incorporated into this collection.

Scope and Content

The Elise Schapira papers include correspondence to Elise in New York from her parents in Frankfurt, photographs of her parents and brother before the Holocaust and of her family in the United States, and two versions of her brief testimony recounting her family life in Germany, her escape to England, her immigration to the United States, and the loss of her brother and parents in the Holocaust.

System of Arrangement

The Elise Schapira papers are arranged as a single series: I. Elise Schapira papers, 1939-1991

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Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.