Else Levy Billin collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Andrew Billin donated his mother's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Oct. 6, 2007.
Scope and Content
Consists of papers related to the Holocaust experiences of Else Levy Billin, originally of Konz, Germany, near Trier. Includes her pre-war and wartime vaccination records, and work certificates from Theresienstadt, (Terezin) where she spent the war. Includes postcards sent from Else Levy and her mother, Gerta Levy, from Terezin to various family members. Also includes one letter, 1983, from Else Levy Billin to the mayor of Trier asking for his assistance in returning to Germany to see her hometown once more.
Genre
- Document