Hetty d'Ancona de Leeuwe papers

Identifier
irn562907
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.539.1
  • 2005.192.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Creator(s)

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

Genre

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