Höxter Family Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains correspondence sent by Käthe and Hugo Höxter, first from their home in Mannheim, and then beginning late 1940 from the Gurs camp, to their son Heinz (Henry) in Louisiana.
There is a also limited amount of correspondence from other relatives and individuals in the United States and in other camps in southern France, some of which indicates that the extended Höxter family was actively trying to secure visas for Käthe and Hugo to leave Germany and France. There are also letters confirming the deportation of Hugo and Kate Höxter, and confirming their deaths in the Auschwitz camp.
Accompanying the original letters and postcards is a manuscript by Henry Hoexter, whose content consists of translated excerpts from the letters with explanatory, biographical, and autobiographical texts.
Dates
- 1938-1945, 1991
Creator
- Hoexter, Henry (Person)
- Höxter family (Family)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German and English.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
For research use only, no reproduction or citation permitted. See deed of gift for information.
For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Extent
3 Folders
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence sent by Käthe and Hugo Höxter, first from their home in Mannheim, and then beginning late 1940 from the Gurs camp, to their son Heinz (Henry) in Louisiana.
Note
Much of the original correspondence is on fragile, embrittled paper.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Correspondence
- Drancy (Concentration camp)
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
- Höxter family
- Höxter, Hugo, 1884-1942
- Höxter, Käthe, 1894-1942
- Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany
- Jews -- Social conditions
- Mannheim (Germany)
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Monroe (La.)
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from France
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from Germany
- Title
- Guide to the Höxter Family Collection, 1938-1945, 1991 AR 6875
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Timothy Ryan Mendenhall
- Date
- © 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- March 2015:: Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
