Thea Lange Spiegel collection

Identifier
irn518483
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.25
Dates
1 Jan 1930 - 31 Dec 2005
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518483

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Thea Lange Spiegel donated her collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Sept. 10, 2006.

Scope and Content

Consists of materials related to the experiences of Thea Lange Spiegel, originally of Danzig, Germany (Gdansk, Poland). Includes wartime letters from Thea, who went to England in 1939 on a Kindertransport, to her mother and sisters, who were interned in Mauritius after a failed attempt to emigrate to Palestine in 1940; post-war letters to Thea from her mother and sisters in Israel; two copies of "Diskretion..Ehrensache!", published by the Jakob Lange (Thea's father) publishing house. Also includes a copy of a memoir entitled "A Free World? No Concentration Camp, but Behind Prison Walls" by Josef Deutsch, a refugee who was also interned in Mauritius.

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.