Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger collection

Identifier: irn96474
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 and 2014 by Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger.

Scope and Content

The collections consists of a doll and photographs relating to the experiences of Elzbieta Lusthaus after the war when she and her mother Helena, who survived in hiding in Poland, were reunited with her father Edmund in Ancona, Italy, where he was stationed with the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army. Accretion: Purse which belonged to Zofia Schiff (donor's maternal grandmother)

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Floral tapestry purse saved by a hidden child
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn554002
- English
- 1942
- overall: Height: 7.625 inches (19.368 cm) | Width: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Floral tapestry purse that was owned by Zofia (Sophie) Lieberman Schiff, and saved by her granddaughter Elzbieta Lusthaus. When Poland was invaded in September 1939, one year old Elzbieta and her mother Helena were separated from her father Edmund, a doctor in the Polish Army. Elzbieta and Helena left Krakow to live with Zofia in Tarnow. Helena did forced labor as a seamstress. On June 11, 1942, German troops came to the house searching for Jews to deport to concentration camps. Four year old Elzbieta hid, but her grandmother was taken by and sent to Belzec killing center. Elzbieta and her ...
Large doll with long blond hair given to a former hidden child by her father when reunited postwar
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn62091
- English
- overall: Height: 24.250 inches (61.595 cm) | Width: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) | Depth: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Large doll with a gingham dress, acquired later, given to 7 year old Elzbieta Lusthaus as a gift from her father Edmund when they were reunited after four years apart in September 1945 in Ancona, Italy. It was the first doll Elzbieta ever owned. The family was separated when the war began in September 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. Dr. Lusthaus had enlisted in the Polish Army and was with his parents in Stryj when he was captured by the Soviets and sent to a prisoner of war labor camp in Siberia. Elzbieta, her mother, and her maternal grandmother Sophie Schiff were confin...
Lusthaus family photographs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn96475
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains seven photographic prints documenting Elzbieta Lusthaus after liberation, most of which show her with the doll given to her by her father Edmund Lusthaus when they were reunited for the first time after the war in Ancona, Italy in 1945. Includes a photographic print showing the Lusthaus family on board the "Queen Mary" during their journey to the United States.

Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger collection

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Floral tapestry purse saved by a hidden child

Large doll with long blond hair given to a former hidden child by her father when reunited postwar

Lusthaus family photographs