Edith Hahn-Beer collection
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
- Collection