Marburg family collection

Identifier
irn43786
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.195.1
Dates
1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Lily Marburg from Vienna, Austria. After the Anschluss, Lily was in Switzerland. She traveled to Italy where she obtained a job as a dancer and eventually traveled to North Africa with the dance company of Esmanoff and Gerda. She spent the war in Tangier, where she met her husband.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joseph Bensadon

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Joseph Bensadon donated the Marburg family collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 2011.

Scope and Content

The Marburg family collection consists of letters and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Lily Marburg, originally of Vienna, Austria. The family correspondence from Vienna, Luxembourg and the Bayogne detention camp relates to the attempts of various family members to escape and emigrate from Austria.

System of Arrangement

The Marburg family collection is arranged in a single series.

People

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Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.