Alfred Eisner papers

Identifier
irn500124
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0056
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1943
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500124

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Alfred Eisner
  • Artur Eisner

Biographical History

Alfred Eisner (1932-2015) was born on 5 April 1932 in Teplice-Šanov, Czechoslovakia (Teplice, Czech Republic) to Joseph and Maria Eisner. He was deported to Theresienstadt in 1944. After liberation he was united with his family and later immigrated to the United States.

Artur Eisner was born in Cologne, Germany, to a Jewish family. During the Holocaust, he was imprisoned in several Nazi concentration camps, including Poznán and Auschwitz-Birkenau. He survived World War II, immigrated to the United States, and settled in New York State.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The two letters and nine postcards were written by Artur Eisner from DAF labor camps to his family and a friend from the years 1942 to 1943. Artur Eisner's nephew, Alfred Eisner, gave them to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 1993. They were transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives the following month.

Scope and Content

Consists of private correspondence. The letters were written by Artur Eisner to members of his family and a friend in Prague, Czechoslovakia, from DAF labor camps where he was being interned. One of the DAF Camps was in Poznán, Poland.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is chronological

People

  • Artur Eisner
  • Eisner, Artur.
  • Alfred Eisner

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Poznań (Poland)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

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.

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