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Description
The Mary Löwenkopf Weiss Papers document the years that Mary Löwenkopf, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, spent in The Netherlands during 1938-1946, when, at age 13, she left Nazi-occupied Vienna and settled in Arnhem, The Netherlands. The collection consists of correspondence with family members and friends in Austria and Poland, documents, and photographs of Löwenkopf Weiss' life in The Netherlands. There is also a small number of documents from the 1950s and 1960s, related to Mary Löwenkopf Weiss' application for restitution from the German government. The collection does not include materials from Löwenkopf Weiss' life in Vienna, or in the United States. Materials are arranged chronologically. Photographs are labeled by year and location, according to manuscript notes on each photograph's verso.
Names
Weiss, Mary Löwenkopf, 1925-1973 (Creator)
Weiss, Mary Löwenkopf, 1925-1973
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1938 - 1962
Library locations
Dorot Jewish Division
Shelf locator: **P (Lowenkopf Weiss)
Topics
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Netherlands
Jewish refugees -- Netherlands -- 20th century
Refugee camps -- Netherlands -- 20th century
Refugee children -- Netherlands
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Netherlands
Genres
Correspondence
Photographs
Notes
Biographical/historical: Mary Löwenkopf Weiss was born in 1925 in Vienna, Austria. At age 13, in December 1938, she left for The Netherlands on a Kindertransport. There, she stayed in Arnhem until 1942, when she was imprisoned and held in the Westerbork concentration camp. She remained in Westerbork until liberation in 1945, and soon after, in 1946, she migrated to Chicago. In later years she tried, unsuccessfully, to obtain restitution.
Content: The Mary Löwenkopf Weiss Papers document the years that Mary Löwenkopf, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, spent in The Netherlands during 1938-1946, when at age 13 she left Nazi-occupied Vienna and settled in Arnhem, The Netherlands. She was later held in the Westerbork concentration camp until 1945. After liberation she migrated to Chicago U. S. A. in 1946. The collection consists of correspondence with family members and friends in Austria and Poland, documents, and photographs of Löwenkopf Weiss' life in The Netherlands. There is also a small number of documents from the 1950s and 1960s related to Mary Löwenkopf Weiss' application for restitution from the German government. The collection does not include materials from Löwenkopf Weiss' life in Vienna, or in the United States.
Physical Description
Extent: 2.5 linear feet (6 boxes)
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Identifiers
Other local Identifier: **P (Lowenkopf Weiss)
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b18710627
MSS Unit ID: 22022
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 98e56a60-f41a-013b-fb38-0242ac110004
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