Schwarzheide collection

Identifier
irn509232
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.214
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn509232

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Richard Svoboda donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Oct. 2, 2001. He added an addendum to the collection on July 28, 2004 and another on Aug. 28, 2007.

Scope and Content

Contains a memoir, entitled "Das Auβenlager Schwarzheide des KZ Sachsenhausen," written by Jacov Tsur and Richard Svoboda, containing information about the auxiliary camp, Schwarzheide, a part of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Also contains papers regarding the memorial for the Jews of Cĕská Lipa., Czech Republic; a list of those killed in Schwardzheide, compiled by the Association of Former Prisoners of the Concentration Camp Schwarzheide, an English translation of the memoir; and other documents regarding Cĕská Lipa., Czech Republic, and the Schwarzheide concentration camp. Also includes two postcards and one letter written by Richard Stein (now Richard Svoboda) in 1944 while he was imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and in the Schwarzheide subcamp of Sachsenhausen. The letters were written to Ella Stibitz and contain code words designated to alert her to the conditions in the camps.

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.