Degen family collection
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
- Collection