David and Lisa Eizenberg collection

Identifier: irn114608
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn114608

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Daniel Eizenberg, Michael Eizenberg, and Nina Schuessler, the children of David and Lisa Eizenberg.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a coat, vest, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of David and Lisa Eizenberg before and after the war in Germany when David worked with the Joint Distribution Committee and HIAS assisting displaced persons in Germany and Palestine.

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Coat worn by a female German Jewish member of the Red Orchestra resistance group
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn283110
- English
- overall: Height: 31.000 inches (78.74 cm) | Width: 32.000 inches (81.28 cm)
- Updated 6 months ago
Coat worn by Lisa Gervai-Egler, probably postwar when she returned to Berlin after being liberated from a concentration camp. During the war, while Lisa was a student at the Berlin Museum School of Fine Arts, she joined an anti-Nazi resistance movement known as the Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra). This group smuggled coded messages on troop movements and other strategic information to the Russian Front. Lisa was captured while on a mission in Poland and imprisoned by the Germans. Toward the end of the war, she met an American soldier, David Eizenberg, who was serving as a Russian translator. D...
Vest worn by a female German Jewish member of the Red Orchestra resistance group
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn283123
- English
- overall: Height: 19.750 inches (50.165 cm) | Width: 18.750 inches (47.625 cm)
- Updated 6 months ago
Vest worn by Lisa Gervai-Egler, probably postwar, when she returned to Berlin after being liberated from a concentration camp. During the war, while Lisa was a student at the Berlin Museum School of Fine Arts, she joined an anti-Nazi resistance movement known as the Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra). This group smuggled coded messages on troop movements and other strategic information to the Russian Front. Lisa was captured while on a mission in Poland and imprisoned by the Germans. Toward the end of the war, she met an American soldier, David Eizenberg, who was serving as a Russian translator. ...
David and Lisa Eizenberg collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn96135
- English
- 1930-1953
- folders 3
- Updated 6 months ago
Consists of photographs and documents from the collection of David and Lisa Eizenberg. Includes photographs of David's work with the Joint Distribution Committee and HIAS in displaced persons camps near Berlin following World War II; of the voyage of the Champollion, which brought displaced persons--including a large group of children to Palestine in April 1946; pre-war family photographs; and some prints published by George Kadish of images from the Stroop Report. Also includes David Eizenberg's 1946 passport; copies of personal correspondence; and letter from the Jewish Agency noting that...

David and Lisa Eizenberg collection

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Coat worn by a female German Jewish member of the Red Orchestra resistance group

Vest worn by a female German Jewish member of the Red Orchestra resistance group

David and Lisa Eizenberg collection