Hedy Epstein papers

Identifier
irn504395
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0117
  • RG-10.145
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1956, 1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504395

Extent and Medium

folders

7

,

10 microfiche,

Creator(s)

  • Hedy Epstein

Biographical History

Hedy Epstein (née Wachenheimer, 1924-2016) was born in Freiburg, Germany to a Jewish family. She fled to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 where she remained for the duration of the war. Her parents were interned in the French Nazi concentration camps of Les Milles and Rivesaltes. After the Holocaust, she worked as a research analyst for the American military during the International Military Tribunal and the successor war crimes trials held by the United States. After the trials, she immigrated to the United States.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Hedy Epstein donated the photocopies of her personal papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in July 1994.

Scope and Content

Contains photocopies of correspondence (letters, postcards, telegrams, Red Cross messages, and envelopes) - exchanges between Hedy Epstein (Hedwig Wachenheimer), her parents, Hugo and Ella Wachenheimer, and other members of their family from 1939 to 1942 containing information on the well-being of family members in Les Milles, Gurs, and Rivesaltes concentration camps in France; various documents collected by Hedy Epstein during her employment with the Office of Chief of Counsel during the International Military Tribunal and subsequent trials in Nuremberg, Germany; and two letters from Ministere des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de la Guerre, June 1956, confirming the death of her parents in Auschwitz in September 1942.

System of Arrangement

Organized into the following order: RG-10.14501 through RG-10.14503, Correspondence, 1939-1942; International Military Tribunal documents, RG-10.14504; and Ministere des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de la Guerre, RG-10.14505 Arrangement within file units is chronological

People

  • Epstein, Hedy, 1924-
  • Wachenheimer, Ella, 1889-1942.
  • Eichel, Heinrich.
  • Wachenheimer, Hugo, 1894-1942.
  • Wachenheimer, Käthe.
  • Wachenheimer, Oskar.

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