Faust, Trudy, 1938-1995

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Scope and Contents

Donation (Poet); Business card; Photocopies of passport (German?); Magazine articles in German(?); Newspaper articles about experiences as a young adult of the Holocaust; List of individuals (possibly their escape point and destination); Request for information from former residents; Newspaper article about her trip to Austria for healing; Literary magazine of poems inspired by the Holocaust (some written by her grandniece); Acquisitions list and explanation sheet; Postcard from labor camp sent by her father to Gertrude Duhl (Trudy Faust).

Dates

Creation: 1938-1995

Access Restrictions

Open for research use.

Biographical / Historical

Trudy's father helped her escape to the United States and helped her brother escape to Palestine, in 1938. Her father passed away in a work camp during the Holocaust. Materials examine her life as a second-generation member. Her father died in the Holocaust but managed to save her. Documents explore her attempt to find closure as well as an experience in which she journey to Austria to visit an area she was familiar with as a young woman.