Ronald W. Schonfeld collection
Extent and Medium
box
oversize boxes
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2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Barbara Schonfeld
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Barbara Schonfeld, the widow of Ronald W. Schonfeld.
Scope and Content
Contains photograph albums and loose photographs illustrating the experiences of the Schonfeld family in Germany and the Netherlands. Hans, Hanna, and Rene Schonfeld emigrated from Germany to the Netherlands before the war. The family was deported on September 6, 1944 to Theresienstadt. Hanna and Rene remained in Theresienstadt and were liberated there; on September 29, 1944, Hans was deported to Auschwitz, where he is presumed to have died on February 28, 1945. Collection includes numerous photographs and photograph albums dating from the turn of the 20th century from the 1930s through the 1970s.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Photo albums.