us-005578-irn522507-irn522523
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn522507-irn522523/acquisitions/1
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1932-01-01
history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1942-12-31
record resource structure: The collection is arranged as a single series.
identifier: irn522523
has or had some members with language: deu
record resource extent: folder 1
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/701
scope and content: The papers consist of four certificates from"Bibleschule" one photograph of Lucie Eisenstab (later Lucie Eisenstab Porges) with her parents Eisig and Jetta Eisenstab and sister Elfie in 1938 in Vienna, Austria; one photograph of Lucie with her father in Geneva, Switzerland after World War II; and one identification travel pass "récépiss") issued to Lucie Eisenstab in 1942.
title: Lucie Eisenstab papers
has record set type: Item
has or had holder: us-005578
history: Lucie Eisenstab was born on November 23, 1926, in Vienna, Austria. Her father, Eisig, was born on May 15, 1886, in Drohobych, Galicia, (Ukraine). Her mother, Jetty Rosner, was born on March 14, 1898, in Vatra Dornei, Romania, the daughter of a wood merchant with five brothers. The family, including Eisig and Jetty’s parents, moved to Vienna during World War I (1914-1918). Eisig was an itinerant textile merchant and window dresser. Lucie had a sister, Elfie, born on October 13, 1930. The Eisenstab’s were assimilated Jews, but Lucie’s paternal grandparents were Orthodox. The family visited them every Sunday and during the visits, a bored Lucie began to draw fashion pictures for fun. Lucie attended a public school where she was one of only a few Jews. German troops marched into Austria on March 12, 1938, and the next day, Austria was merged with the German Reich. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted and life changed dramatically for Lucie. The Germans confiscated the family’s possessions and they had to move in with Lucie’s maternal grandmother. Lucie was forced to leave her public school and had to attend a private Jewish school. She joined a Zionist youth organization. After Eisig’s business was boycotted, he decided the family would leave Austria. He tried to procure visas for various countries, but was unsuccessful. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 10, 1938, Eisig was arrested. Lucie, Jetty, and her grandmother had to move into an apartment which they shared with another family. Jetty got Eisig a lawyer and six weeks later he was released on the condition that the family leave Austria within two weeks or he would be sent to Poland. Jetty’s mother left to join her two sons in Palestine in late 1938. In January 1939, the Eisenstab family left for Cologne, with no passports or visas and only hand luggage. Eisig’s parents, too old to travel, stayed behind. The family was not disturbed by German soldiers on the train as they did not look Jewish. They took a ro…
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn522507-irn522523/alternateIDs/1
is or was included in: us-005578-irn522507
type: RecordSet
has or had some members with language: fra