Metadata: Papers of the family Lebenhaft
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Postal address:
- ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- +48 (22) 827 92 21
- Email:
- secretary@jhi.pl
- Reference number:
- 312/S/237
- Title:
- Papers of the family Lebenhaft
- Title (official language):
- Spuścizna rodziny Lebenhaft
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lebenhaft family
- Date(s):
- 1940/1944
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Extent:
- 45 postcards; 14 letters
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains postcards and letters written to Tamara Deutscher by members of her family confined in the Warsaw Ghetto and then in hiding outside the ghetto. The collection consists of 45 postcards, 14 letters (including one receipt and a list of packages sent) and 2 envelopes.
- Archival history:
- After the death of Tamara Deutscher, the collection was put in the care of Professor Anita Prażmowska. Professor Prażmowska donated the collection as a deposit to the Jewish Historical Institute on 3 November 2015. The owner of the collection is the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Tamara Deutscher, née Lebenhaft (I voto Frimmer; the marriage ended in divorce), was born in 1913 in Łódź. Shortly after the outbreak of war, she left Poland and arrived in London. She kept in touch with her family imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto through Stefan Rogasiński, an employee of the Polish embassy in Lisbon. Rogasiński sent cards and food parcels to Warsaw. After the war, Tamara Deutscher did not want to talk about the Holocaust. She died on 7 August 1990 in London. Her second husband, from 1947, was Isaac Deutscher, historian, translator, and author of biographies of Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky.
- Access points: locations:
- Warsaw
- Access points: persons/families:
- Deutscher, Tamara
- Lebenhaft
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Ghettos
- Holocaust--Hiding
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order by date of posting.
- Finding aids:
- A Polish-language digital inventory (2015) is available at the archive and online.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Monika Taras, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, 2018
