Frederic Zeller collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Susan Kennedy Zeller, the widow of Frederic Zeller.
Scope and Content
Correspondence; diaries; documents; photographs; interview; of David Borgenicht (one of “The Boys”); manuscript of unfinished chapters of second book: “Friendly Enemy Allien”; negatives; all related to the Zeller family of Berlin: Heinrich Zeller and Fanny Gottesmann Zeller and their two children: Frederic and Lilian. Pocket Watch: which Heinrich Zeller left with a French woman he worked for, when he was in a camp in South of France. Heinrich Zeller left this watch and a suit with the French woman as he was deported to Drancy. The woman located Frederic after the war and returned the watch to him. Frederic Zeller wrote a book: “When Time Ran Out”
Genre
- Collection