Johanna Jakobs papers

Identifier
irn514860
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.108.1
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Shirley Froelich Levine

The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Shirley Froelich Levine.

Scope and Content

The papers consist of correspondence and photographs concerning Johanna Jakobs [donor's paternal aunt] and her experiences during World War II, including her deportation from Germany with her husband and her internment and persecution in Theresienstadt concentration camp where her husband perished. She survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to Chicago, Ill.

People

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