Toward the abyss cards and letters : Mindelheim-Lublin, 1941-1943

Identifier
irn506454
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-02.212
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn506454

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Werner J. Lipton

Biographical History

Werner Jacob Lipton (Liebschüz) left Germany in 1939 for Switzerland where he lived in Kinderheime (children's homes).

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Werner Jacob Lipton sent the original correspondence and the photocopied correspondence with translations to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on July 9, 1996, via U.S. Postal Service certified mail; however, the Archives did not receive the collection. See the donor file for documentation relating to efforts to trace the collection. Mr. Lipton donated an additional copy of the photocopied correspondence with translations to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Dec. 3, 1996.

Scope and Content

Contains a collection of photocopied letters and postcards, most of which are to Werner Jacob Lipton (born Liebschütz) from his parents, Fanni and Jakob Liebschütz, his aunt and uncle, Max and Berta Bach, and his grandmother, Mina Liebschütz, and which deal with efforts to emigrate and family matters. In 1939, following increasing restrictions on German Jews, Werner's parents sent him to Switzerland where he lived in Kinderheime (children's homes). Fanni and Jakob Liebschütz were deported from Mindelheim, Germany, to the ghetto in Piaski, Poland, in March 1942; by June 1942 they were in the Lublin, Poland, area. Their last letters are farewell notes to their son indicating they are leaving for an unspecified location. Mina Liebschütz died in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Max and Berta Bach and died in an unnamed concentration camp. English-language translations by Werner Jacob Lipton and his cousin, Walter Heilbronner, are available.

People

  • Werner J. Lipton
  • Bach family.
  • Liebschütz family.
  • Lipton, Werner J., 1928-

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Children--Institutional care--Switzerland.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
  • Lublin (Poland)
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland--Piaski (Lublin)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
  • Piaski (Lublin, Poland)

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.

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