Edith Hahn-Beer collection

Identifier
irn740946
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

Dalk Feith, Drew Lewis, and Edith Hahn-Beer donated the Edith Hahn-Beer collecton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998.

Scope and Content

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edith Hahn-Beer, originally of Vienna, Austria, including forced-labor in Osterburg and Aschersleben, Germany, living in Munich and Brandenburg an der Havel under the false-identity of Margarete Denner, and marriage to German Nazi officer Werner Vetter. The bulk of the collection consists of wartime correspondence between Edith and her fiancé Joseph Rosenfeld, along with family correspondence, biographical materials, and photographs.

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.