us-005578-irn504395
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Hedy Epstein (née Wachenheimer, 1924-2016) was born in Freiburg, Germany to a Jewish family. She fled to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 where she remained for the duration of the war. Her parents were interned in the French Nazi concentration camps of Les Milles and Rivesaltes. After the Holocaust, she worked as a research analyst for the American military during the International Military Tribunal and the successor war crimes trials held by the United States. After the trials, she immigrated to the United States.
has beginning date: 1939-01-01
has end date: 1956-12-31
has end date: 1947-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 001703
has or had subject: 1980
has or had subject: 0
has or had subject: 843
has or had subject: 1981
has or had subject: 162
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn504395
record resource extent: folders 7 , 10 microfiche,
record resource structure: Organized into the following order: RG-10.145*01 through RG-10.145*03, Correspondence, 1939-1942; International Military Tribunal documents, RG-10.145*04; and Ministere des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de la Guerre, RG-10.145*05 Arrangement within file units is chronological
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Contains photocopies of correspondence (letters, postcards, telegrams, Red Cross messages, and envelopes) - exchanges between Hedy Epstein (Hedwig Wachenheimer), her parents, Hugo and Ella Wachenheimer, and other members of their family from 1939 to 1942 containing information on the well-being of family members in Les Milles, Gurs, and Rivesaltes concentration camps in France; various documents collected by Hedy Epstein during her employment with the Office of Chief of Counsel during the International Military Tribunal and subsequent trials in Nuremberg, Germany; and two letters from Ministere des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de la Guerre, June 1956, confirming the death of her parents in Auschwitz in September 1942.
title: Hedy Epstein papers