Violet Dattner collection

Identifier: irn597275
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Vera Berv, the daughter of Violet Dattner.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of handwritten notes of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial written by Violet Dattner as well as photographs, documents, and newsaper clippings of and from the trial. The collection also includes three maps of concentration camps and other materials relating to the Holocaust experiences of Wilhelm and Violet Dattner.

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Wilhelm and Violet Dattner papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn177411
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Correspondence and documents relating to Wilhelm (Willy) and Violet Dattner (donor's parents). Willy Dattner (b. 1909 in Krakow) and Violet Fogel (b. c.1916 in Oradea, Romania) lived in Antwerp, Belgium, where Willy was a diamond merchant. In May 1940, after the German invasion of Belgium, Willy started to evacuate his large family to France. After overcoming many difficulties, arrests, and returning to Antwerp to pick up additional family members, Willy and Violet reached Spain and later sailed to Havana, Cuba. In March 1941, they arrived in New York where they joined Sigi Dattner (Willy's...
Violet Dattner collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn594553
- English
- folders 7
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains handwritten notes of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-1965) written by Violet Dattner (donor's mother) as well as photographs, documents, and newspaper clippings of and from the trial.
Map of Poland and the Baltics
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn597276
- English
- overall: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 11.190 inches (28.423 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Map published by E. Kossoy, Munich, showing the locations of death camps in Poland and the Baltics as of the end of WWII.
Map, Judenvernichtung im Donauraum
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn597277
- English
- overall: Height: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) | Width: 15.130 inches (38.43 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Map published by E. Kossoy, Munich, showing the locations of deportation routes in Eastern Europe.
Map, Mitteleuropa in der ersten Halfte des Jahres 1945
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn597280
- English
- overall: Height: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Map published by E. Kossoy, Munich, showing the locations of camps in the Central Europe during the first half of 1945.

Violet Dattner collection

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Wilhelm and Violet Dattner papers

Violet Dattner collection

Map of Poland and the Baltics

Map, Judenvernichtung im Donauraum

Map, Mitteleuropa in der ersten Halfte des Jahres 1945