United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dorothea Baumgart (1875-1957), was born Dorothea Lissner in Obrzycko, Poland and lived in Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland). Her property was confiscated by the Nazi regime in June 1943, and four days later she was deported to Theresienstadt, where she remained until its liberation in 1945. She spent some time in the Deggendorf displaced persons camp after the war before moving to England around 1946. Her daughter Hertha Baumgart moved to England in 1939, and her children Kurt Baumgart, Frieda Boldes, and son-in-law Richard Boldes are believed to have been killed at Auschwitz.
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The Dorothea Baumgart papers are arranged as a single series: I. Dorothea Baumgart papers, 1940-approximately 1957
The Dorothea Baumgart papers include a 1940 letter from someone named Selma in Prague to someone named Hilde; a 1943 decree for the confiscation of Dorothea Baumgart's property; a postcard from Dorothea Baumgart in Theresienstadt to Frieda Boldes in Auschwitz; several sheets of toilet paper Baumgart used as writing paper to describe her Holocaust experiences and claims for restitution; and a list of the Holocaust-era fates of Hertha Baumgart, Frieda Boldes, Richard Boldes, and Kurt Baumgart.
Dorothea Baumgart papers