Elsie Deeks collection

Identifier
irn47886
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.367.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 2002
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

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.

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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.