Marcus (Mark) Tennenbaum papers

Identifier
irn517229
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.505.1
Dates
1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1941
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517229

Extent and Medium

box

oversize folder

1

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Robert Tennenbaum, the son of Marcus (Mark) Tennenbaum, donated a copy of his father's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on August 20, 1998. The rest of the collection was added on Sep. 20, 2004.

Scope and Content

Contains photocopies of a handwritten memoir, 45 pages, about Mark Tennenbaum's experiences when the Nazis first occupied Vienna in March 1938 until he left on March 9, 1939, as well as documents containing information about the Tennenbaum family's emigration to the United States on the R.M.S. Queen Mary, which sailed on March 18, 1939. Also includes 91 photographs and copies of photographs of his family, his home, and his lumber business in downtown Vienna in the late 1930s.

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