Hetty d'Ancona de Leeuwe papers
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Creator(s)
- Hetty de Leeuwe
Biographical History
Estella d'Ancona-Vieijra, Hetty's mother, was a Dutch Jew who was arrested during World War II and interned in Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Czech Republic, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, and finally Lenzing labor camp in Austria where she was liberated in 1945.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Hetty d'Ancona de Leeuwe
Donated to the USHMM in 2017 by the Estate of Hetty D'Ancona de Leeuwe.
Scope and Content
Contains photographs of the d'Ancona family before the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands; a birth announcement for Hetty d'Ancona (donor); two postwar letters; and a "rapportboekje" or report card booklet.
People
- Hetty de Leeuwe
Genre
- Report cards.
- Letters.
- Document
- Photographs.