Katherine Goldstein Prevost papers
Collection Overview
The collection consists of copy negatives and slides, memoirs, clippings, and other papers of Katherine Goldstein Prevost, a native of Budapest, Hungary, who was imprisoned in Kaufering, a subcamp of Dachau, during World War II. Included is a memoir written by Prevost's friend Ferike Csato and a videocassette interview of Samuel Klasner, another friend, all Holocaust survivors.
Dates
- Creation: 1925-2000
Creator
- Prevost, Katherine Goldstein, 1924- (Person)
Language of Material
Materials in English, Hungarian, German
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
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Biographical Note
Katherine Goldstein, also known as Katalin or Katharina, was born May 13, 1924, in Budapest, Hungary. In November 1944, she was deported by the Nazis to Kaufering, a subsidiary camp of the Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany. On April 26, 1945, three days before the Americans liberated Dachau, Goldstein and other Dachau inmates were forced to march to Beuerberg. Goldstein was liberated on April 30, 1945, and came to the United States, where she married Arthur Prevost in Staten Island, New York, in 1950.
Extent
0.25 linear feet (7 folders, 1 videocassette)
Abstract
The collection consists of copy negatives and slides, memoirs, clippings, and other papers of Katherine Goldstein Prevost, a native of Budapest, Hungary, who was imprisoned in Kaufering, a subcamp of Dachau, during World War II. Included is a memoir written by Prevost's friend Ferike Csato and a videocassette interview of Samuel Klasner, another friend, all Holocaust survivors.
Collection Arrangement
Materials are described at the folder level.
Acquisitions Information
Materials donated in 2000 and 2005 by Katherine Goldstein Prevost.
Processing Information
Processed by Rebecca McClure, March 2013.
Subject
- Prevost, Katherine Goldstein, 1924- (Person)
- Klasner, Samuel, 1917-2001 (Person)
- Csato, Ferike (Person)
- Dachau (Concentration camp) (Organization)
- Kaufering (Concentration camp) (Organization)
Source
- Prevost, Katherine Goldstein, 1924- (Donor, Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Inventory of the Katherine Goldstein Prevost Papers, 1925-2000
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by: Rebecca McClure; machine-readable finding aid created by: Rebecca McClure
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the processing of this collection and encoding of the finding aid.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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