Johanna Jakobs papers
Extent and Medium
folder
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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
- Jakobs, Johanna.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Photographs.