Marion Strauss Sapir collection

Identifier
irn76672
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Daniel Sapir.

Scope and Content

Documents, correspondence, books and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Siegfried Strauss (b. 1898) and spouse Margarit Wolff Strauss (b. 1902) both from Marburg, Germany and their children Marion (b. 1925) and Karl-Heinz (b. 1929) in Frankfurt, Germany. Letters between extended family who fled Nazi occupation and Strauss family who fled Germany for the Netherlands where they were arrested and interned in Westerbork. From there, they were deported to Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz. Margarit and Karl-Heinz did not survive. Siegfried and Marion survived and immigrated to the United States after the war.

Genre

  • Collection
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