Laufer family papers
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Deborah Maarsen-Laufer.
Scope and Content
The collection contains photographs, correspondence, and documents relating to the exeriences of the Laufer family in Germany and the Netherlands during the Holocaust. The collection includes pre-World War II photographs of Elizabeth and Wilhelm Laufer and their daughters, Gisela, Margreet, and Deborah [donor], as well as a letter written from Elizabeth who was interned in Ravensbrück with her daughters to Wilhelm who was interned in Buchenwald, post-war documents issued to the Laufer women liberated in Bergen-Belsen, and post-war photographs of the family and three additional children born after the family reunited.
People
- Laufer, Margreet.
- Laufer, Elizabeth.
- Maarsen-Laufer, Deborah.
- Laufer family.
- Laufer, Gisela.
- Laufer, Wilhelm.
Subjects
- School children--Netherlands--1940-1950.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Jewish families--Netherlands.
- Concentration camp inmates' writings--Germany.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document