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Heinz's Jewish Council registration card
Heinz's Jewish Council registration card. Amsterdam and Westerbork ID cards
Copy of front page of the Paraguayan passport. Passport created by Polish diplomats in Switzerland.
Photos of Tutti, Robby and family, 1947 in Amsterdam.
Portrait of Heinz Lichtenstern, Tutti's father.
The handwriting roughly translates to "I am filling these pages with pictures from all times that came from all possible places."
Heinz's personal identification in Amsterdam
Receipt of sale of metals by Heinz Lichtenstern from June 1944 while in Westerbork transit camp.
Weekly Amsterdam Jewish newspaper. Center: what you need to know! How for Jews to stay out of trouble, new regulations
Schouwburg Theater where Jews were rounded up in Amsterdam before being deported.
Margaret's personal identification in Amsterdam
Portrait of Margaret Lichtenstern, Tutti's mother.
Portrait of Margaret Lichtenstern, Tutti's mother.
Memorial stone for the Spier family "who were all tragically killed by persecution between 1936-1945." Wichrath, Germany. In the Jewish cemetery.
Notarized letter confirming the Lichtenstern family's Paraguayan citizenship, November 1943
Notarized letter confirming the Lichtenstern family's Paraguayan citizenship, November 1943
Nov 8 1943 p. 1 metal jews
Nov 8 1943 p. 2 metal jews
Portrait of Okkie, or Oscar, Lichtenstern. Tutti's grandfather, Heinz's father.
Receipt from Oxyde (where Heinz for) September 1943. Still dealing with metal.
Tutti's doll, Popje.
Tutti's family hid in this room in Amsterdam before giving themselves up and reporting to the theater.
Tutti's brother Robby, throughout the years.
Tutti and Robby, all taken around 1943.
Red cross card for Tutti's brother, Robert. Handwriting at the top "I'm Leven!" He's alive! Accounting after the war of where people had been.
Tieneke Spier-Bendien, married to Tutti's uncle Bobby.
Tineke wife of Bobby died in Mauthausen
Photos of Tutti as a baby and young girl.
Photograph of Flo and Tutti. Tutti and grandmother before war
Tutti speaking at the CT State Holocaust Commemoration. Tutti and Pophe 2016
Tutti with Robbie before war
Tutti's bedroom in Brazil. Popje on the dresser, pictures of Uncle Bobby and Oma (grandma) Flo on the wall.
"Privledged" barracks at Westerbork, taken in the 1960s.
Release from Westerbork in which the Lichtenstern family is listed.
Heinz's Displaced Persons' (D.P.) Index Cards
Margaret's Displaced Persons' (D.P.) Index Cards
Map depicting the major deportations from the low countries in 1942-1944
Transport list with Tutti's grandparents Flora and Louis deported to Auschwitz, 1944.
Flo Spier, Tutti's maternal grandmother, and an unknown woman. Portrait in the back is of Bubby, Tutti's uncle
Portrait of Flo Spier, Tutti's maternal grandmother.
Heinz's Medical Clearance Certificates after liberation.
Theresienstadt money
Map depicting the set up of the Theresienstadt Ghetto in the summer of 1944.
Document calling for the immediate arrest and transport of Jewish metal merchant Heinz Lichtenstern to Theresienstadt, February 10, 1944.
Margaret Lichtenstern's work card stating her job while in Westerbork transit camp. She worked in the laundry section of the camp.
Heinz's work pass to leave Westerbork to conduct business in Amsterdam
Map of Amsterdam depicting roads and railroads in 1942.
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