Title
Erna Eylenburg
Subject
Holocaust victims --Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Jewish children in the Holocaust
Berlin (Germany)
Students
Eylenburg, Erna,--1923-1942
Description
Studio portrait of Erna Eylenburg, daughter of Loewenstein family friends Drs. Ernst and Elisabeth Eylenburg. Erna, at fifteen years old, and her younger brother Walter, age nine, escaped to the Netherlands on March 30, 1939. Eylenburg was on one of the first transports from the Netherlands to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and was murdered there in 1942. The rest of the Eylenburg family, Drs. Ernst and Elisabeth, and Walter, were interned in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp before dying in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in 1944.
Handwritten on back of photograph: "Erna Eylenburg."
Date
between 1937-1939
Rights
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Format
1 __item __(photograph)
Photographic postcards
Good __ __4 x 5 inches __ __ __black and white
Language
Handwriting on back of photograph is in English. __eng
Type
Photographs --Portraits
Identifier
B333.01.0001.0001.00003
codu:58141