Degen family collection

Identifier
irn724355
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022 by Laura Cohen.

Scope and Content

The collection contains cassette tapes of interviews between the donor's mother, Helen Degen [Degenfisz] Cohen and her parents, Blima [Bluma] and Josef Degen [Degenfisz] after the War as well as with her rescuer, Maria Szumska. It also includes postwar letters written between Helen and Maria. There is also a booklet likely used after the War inscribed with Hebrew and Polish [appears to be educational], likely kept in the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp.

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.