Inge Laband Strauss collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Inge Strauss
Inge Strauss donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jan. 14, 2008.
Scope and Content
Consists of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the families of Inge Laband Strauss and Bruno Strauss. Includes a letter written in the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in 1945 by Inge's first cousin, Ilse Berger Pfingst, regarding her Holocaust experiences, including her deportation from Breslau to Theresienstadt (Terezin), to Auschwitz, to forced labor in a munitions factory near Oderan, Germany, and her liberation from Theresienstadt. Also includes pre-war documents regarding Herbert Laband's difficulty working in the mid-1930s due to antisemitism, as well as the emigration documents used by the family in their 1938 immigration to the United States. Includes extensive family histories for Ilse Pfingst, the family of Herbert Laband, and the family of Moritz Strauss.
Subjects
- Deggendorf (Germany)
Genre
- Document