Jenny Pelz Collection 1908-1966

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Jenny Pelz Collection 1908-1966

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The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence sent from Jenny Pelz in Berlin to her children and grandchildren in the United States during the second World War.

5 folders

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Leo Baeck Institute Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6346768

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Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)

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On June 10, 1940, the Gestapo took control of Terezìn (Theresienstadt), a fortress, built in 1780-1790 in what is now the Czech Republic, and set up prison in the Small Fortress (Kleine Festung). By 24 November 1941, the Main Fortress (grosse Festung, ie the town Theresienstadt) was turned into a walled ghetto. The function of Theresienstadt was to provide a front for the extermination operation of Jews. To the outside it was presented by the Nazis as a model Jewish settlement, but in reality it...

Meier-Pelz, Erich

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Pelz, Jenny, 1874-1943?

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Jenny Pelz, née Grünberg, was born in Schönlanke (today Trzcianka, Poland), married first to Hermann Meier, then to Adolf Pelz after Meier's death. From the materials in the collection, she appears to have spend most of her life in Berlin. She was deported in 1943 to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz, where she was murdered. From the guide to the Jenny Pelz Collection, 1908-1966, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives) ...

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Meyer, Ruth

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