Katarina Grünsteinová collection
Extent and Medium
folders
oversize folder
6
1
Creator(s)
- Katarina Gruensteinova
Biographical History
Katarina Grünsteinová (nee Feldbauer) was born on March 15, 1922 to Moric and Franziska Feldbauer. Katarina and her older borther, Bernhard, grew up in Senica, Czechoslovakia. They lived there until Nazi occupation, when they were deported to Bratislava-Patronka concentration camp, and following that, to Auschwitz, where Katarina’s entire family was killed. She was transported to Ravensbrück in 1944, and later to Malchow in 1945, where she was liberated. After the war she lived in Prague and eventually married Robert Grünstein.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The Katarina Grünsteinová collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 by Katarina Grünsteinová.
Scope and Content
The Katarina Grünsteinová collection contain various documents relating to Katarina’s imprisonment during the Holocaust. Items include two postcards sent while Katarina was in Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Red Cross card, a camp newsletter, and a court decision ordering her father Moric, to dissolve his company. Other items include two newspapers, a copy of Katarina’s Czech memoir, and a small booklet about her hometown during the Holocaust.
System of Arrangement
The Katarina Grünsteinová collection is arranged as a single series.
People
- Feldbauer, Frantziska.
- Grünsteinová, Katarina Feldbauer.
- Grünstein, Robert.
- Feldbauer, Moric.
- Feldbauer, Bernhard.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jewish children--Czechoslovakia.
- Holocaust victims' families.
- Senica, (Slovakia)
- Concentration camp inmates--Correspondence.
- Jewish families--Czechoslovakia--Senica.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust victims.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Document
- Postcards.
- Newsletters.
- Newspapers.
- Memoirs.