Elisabeth Model was born in Bayreuth, Germany, in 1897. She had four brothers and sisters, including a twin. She married in 1922 and moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands, working as a sculptor. Following Kristallnacht, Elisabeth returned to Germany to attempt to help her mother emigrate. Through cooperation with a Dutch underground organization, Elisabeth was able to help her mother escape to the Netherlands. In 1940, her husband was imprisoned for one month by the Nazis on a false charge of smuggling money into the Netherlands. In 1941, Elisabeth and her husband bribed a woman at the Spanish Consulate to give them exit visas. Elisabeth and her husband were able to travel to Madrid, Spain, eventually immigrating to New York in 1942.
Arrangement is chronological and thematic
"Memories: People and Place" is the remembrance of Elisabeth Model as a wife, mother, and artist during the 1940s and 1950s."In Memoriam: Max Mode" is a tribute to Max Model, husband of Elisabeth Model, with information about his persecution during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. See RG list for titles for RG-10.060*01 - *02.
2 linear in., 4 microfiche,
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Elizabeth Model scrapbooks