Erna Eylenburg, between 1937-1939

Item

Identifier: B333.01.0001.0001.00003

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Abstract

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.

Dates

between 1937-1939

Digital Repository

Erna Eylenburg

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1 Items (photograph)

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Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Documents, photographs, and digital images from the Loewenstein and Bätge families before World War II, primarily documents pertaining to Heinrich Loewenstein's escape from Berlin on the Kindertransport.