Senta Hirtz collection

Senta Hirtz collection 

Senta Hirtz collection 

2 boxes 

This collection contains the personal papers of Senta Hirtz, including: school and professional training certificates; papers relating to her work as a physiotherapist; report on her Jewish Relief Unit work at the welfare centre near the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony, in 1945 describing the conditions at the hospital, search office and activities of the social club; unpublished memoirs; extracts from diaries, poetry and personal notes; travel journals of holidays in Greece and the USA in the 1970s; report on a trip to her former home in Germany in 1992; and personal correspondence with family and friends. Also included are passports and identity cards of her and her mother Martha Hirtz; drawings and poetry by her brother Herbert Hirtz; and photographs. 

The papers are arranged chronologically by subject.