Edith Koenig papers

Identifier
irn515535
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.132
  • RG-10.445
Dates
1 Jan 1932 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515535

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Hedwig Gutmann

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Edith Koenig

The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Edith Koenig in 1991.

Scope and Content

The papers consist of six postcards with Adolf Hitler postage stamps sent from Theresienstadt by Hedwig Gutmann, the paternal grandmother of Edith Koenig; three photographs taken by the United States Signal Corps of the liberation of a concentration camp; and one photograph of Edith Koenig, her mother, and Hedwig Gutmann taken in 1932 in Germany. Hedwig Gutmann likely perished at Auschwitz.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

People

  • Koenig, Edith.
  • Gutmann, Hedwig.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Dead persons--1940-1950.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Concentration camp inmates' writings--Czech Republic--Terezín (Severočeský kraj)
  • Prisoners--1940-1950.

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.