Elsie Deeks collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mark Celinscak
Dr. Mark Celinscak donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012. He received this collection from Ms. Deeks' lifelong friend, Betty Thomson, as part of his own work on Canadians at Bergen-Belsen.
Scope and Content
Consists of photographs, correspondence, and documents from the collection of Elsie Deeks, originally of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ms. Deeks worked with the St. John's Ambulance Brigade of Canada as part of the 29th British General Hospital and was stationed at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp between May and July 1945. Includes handwritten letters about life in the hospital, personal photographs, documents related to her wartime service and copyprints of official photographs taken upon the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
People
- Deeks, Elsie.
Corporate Bodies
- Canada. Canadian Army
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--Medical care--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Europe.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Photographs.
- Document