Dorette Luedecke papers
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dorette Luedecke
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Dorette Luedecke.
Scope and Content
The collection documents Margarethe Luedecke's [donor's mother] experiences as a forced laborer in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust and her brief internment in Theresienstadt concentration camp, from which she gained release through the efforts of her non-Jewish ex-husband. Also included are a last letter from her maternal grandfather before his death in 1942 and post-World War II documentation concerning Dorette Luedecke and her mother.
People
- Luedecke, Margarethe.
- Luedecke, Dorette.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany--Berlin.
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Holocaust survivors--Germany.
- Ex-concentration camp inmates--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Identification cards.
- Autograph albums.
- Letters.
- Photographs.
- Certificates.
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.