Henry Baigelman collection

Identifier
irn40185
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.164.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish.
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn40185

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Henry Baigelman

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Riva Berelson and Simon Baigelman on behalf of the Estate of Henry Baigelman.

Scope and Content

Contains documents pertaining to Henry Baigelman's participation in a jazz band called the "Happy Boys" that performed in displaced persons camps in Germany after WWII. Includes handwritten sheet music, song lyrics in Yiddish, certificates acknowledging group's performances, documentation stating that Henry Baigelman had been interned at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and a copy of a Passierschein issued to him. (See also Henry Eisenman collection, 2018.525.1)

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Genre

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