Hermine Markowitz papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Hermine Markowitz
Biographical History
Hermina Zali Katz (now Markowitz) was born on Mar. 15, 1926 in Volovice, Czechoslovakia. When the Nazis took over the Sudetenland, Hermine was visiting her aunt and uncle in Antwerp, where she remained until she fled to France following the German invasion of Belgium. She was separated from her family and taken by another family to Marseilles and placed in hiding in a convent with the help of the OSE. On Aug. 27, 1942, the Gestapo arrested her and took her to Aix-en-Provence. During her medical exam, she was diagnosed with appendicitis and taken to a Catholic hospital, where she escaped and returned to the convent. She stayed at the convent until liberation, when she became an OSE counselor for war orphans. Her parents and seven siblings were deported to Auschwitz in Apr. 1944, and only one sister, Dora, survived.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Hermine Markowitz in 2002.
Scope and Content
Consists of documents, including a false French "Carte d’identite" pertaining to the donor's time in hiding, and documents pertaining to the donor's husband's incarceration in camps and claim for restitutioon.
People
- Hermine Markowitz
Subjects
- Restitution and indemnification claims (1933-)
Genre
- Identification card.
- Document