"True friends"

Identifier
irn503498
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.A.0077
  • RG-20.010.01
Dates
1 Jan 1991 - 31 Dec 1991
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503498

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

Klaus Driessen

Acquisition

"True Friends" was written by Klaus Driessen in Jun. 1991. It was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives ca. Apr. 1992 via Harvey Sarner.

Scope and Content

Consists of a copy of "True friends" by Klaus Driessen. The manuscript describes how the writer's mother, Mati Driessen, a German costume designer, rescued her friend and business partner, Lilli Wolff, a German Jew, from Nazi persecution.

People

  • Driessen, Mati.
  • Wolff, Lilli.
  • Driessen, Klaus.

Corporate Bodies

  • Yad Vashem (Jerusalem)

Subjects

  • Kristallnacht, 1938.
  • Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
  • Hiding places.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Cologne (Germany)
  • Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
  • Vienna (Austria)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
  • Jewish ghettos--Austria--Vienna.

Genre

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