Abendstern, Fleischmann and Meyerhoff families collection

Identifier
irn538541
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Peter Aldin.

Scope and Content

Correspondence, photographs, documents and artworks relating to the family of Otto and Elly (Meyerhoff) Abendstern and their son Peter Abendstern (later Aldin) as well as Elly's second husband Adolf Richard Fleischmann. Chiefly related to Otto's internment in camps in south France, Elly and Peter's time in hiding in France during the war, and Fleischmann's internment at Camps Les Milles and Saint Nicolas in southern France. Includes birth and marriage certificates, immigration and travel documents, correspondence between members of the Abendstern family, artwork (sketchbooks, ink drawings, watercolors) made by Adolf Fleischmann in the camps, photo albums and loose photographs (pre-war, wartime, and postwar), a Catholic missal given to Peter Abendstern while he was in hiding in 1943, and Peter Aldin's memoir.

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.