Stiel family collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Raphael Stiel
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Raphael Stiel.
Scope and Content
Contains photographs depicting Esther and Isidore Stiel [donor’s parents] before the war, with their firstborn son Jacques during the war, and after the war with Raffie [donor]. Also contains a copy of a letter written by a nun in the convent where Raffie was hidden, to reassure his mother that he is well, dated September 29, 1943; a testimony given by Esther Wolf (Stiel) regarding her and her husband’s contacts with Weinreb; postwar Red Cross tracing correspondence regarding relatives who perished in Holocaust, and the trial protocol of Frijdrijk Weinreb, dated November 1947. Isidore Stiel perished in Dachau.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
- Letters.