Anna StenCollection 1886-1992 bulk 1970s-1990s

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Anna StenCollection 1886-1992 bulk 1970s-1990s

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The Anna StenCollection documents the life of Anna Sten, a Psychotherapist in New York, whosurvived the Holocaust in a Romanian concentration camp. The collection containspersonal and professional papers, as well as creative writings by Anna Sten. In thefirst folder most of the papers are correspondence and notebooks. The second foldercontains essays about psychotherapy and child development and some short-storieswritten for the general public.

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Leo Baeck Institute.

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Sten, Anna, 1908-1993

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Anna Sten was born in Romania into an upper-class family as an only child. During the Second World War she was interned at a concentration camp in Vapniarka, Romania (today Ukraine). The camp was liquidated in 1944 and the prisoners were brought to other concentration camps. The Nazis tortured her by cutting the tendons in her knees. Anna Sten lost all her family members during the Holocaust (only her father had died prior to the war). In August 1974, she obtained her diploma in psychotherapy fr...

Dukes, Eva.

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Eva Dukes née Altmann was born in December 18, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. Until 1938, she attended Realgymnasium at the Schwarzwaldschule, the first school in Austria to offer Matura (advanced high school diploma) to girls. The school was founded by women's education pioneer Eugenia Schwarzwald. In Vienna, Dukes was involved in the swimming club Haschachar Akiba Hakoah, as well as a Zionist youth group. In 1939, at age 15, Dukes fled Vienna, and via Hungary, Switzerland, a...