Dina Buchler Chen collection
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dina Buchler Chen
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Dina Buchler Chen.
Scope and Content
Pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Dina Buchler [donor, now Dina Chen] and her parents. Includes are photos of Blanka First, with whom she lived after her mother smuggled her out of a concentration camp, and photos of the Beretics family, who hid her during the war. Includes a false baptism certificate; letters written by Dina's mother to her uncle Bela Weiss, who escaped to Shanghai; and a scrapbook and other materials pertaining to Paula Sitzer, an opera singer in Zagreb.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
- Letters.