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FRIED AND FAKTOR FAMILY PAPERS, 1908-1950, and undated
2016.370.1
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives
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Washington, DC 20024-2126
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Descriptive summary
Title: Fried and Faktor family papers
Dates: 1908-1986, and undated
Accession number: 2016.370.1
Creator: Buchsbaum, Ann Fried.
Extent: 20 folders
Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW,
Washington, DC 20024-2126
Abstract: Documents, photographs, and other materials related to Ann Fried Buchsbaum, originally of
Vienna, Austria; her parents, Bernard (Judka) Fried and Laura Dickmann Fried Faktor; as well as
stepfather, Alois (Lou) Faktor, originally of Prague, and his family. These materials are chiefly related to
their lives in prewar Vienna, their efforts following the German annexation of Austria to leave that
country, Ann’s time at a children’s dormitory in Holland (1938-1939), and Laura and Alois’ time in
London and Prague. Also included are photographs of Ann’s husband, Walter Buchsbaum, a refugee
from Vienna, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Languages: English, German, Czech.
Administrative Information
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Preferred citation: (Identification of item), Fried and Faktor family papers, United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC]
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Acquisition information: Gift of Ann Fried Buchsbaum, 2016, with accretions in 2017.
Related archival materials: Postcards from Laura Fried Faktor’s brother, Julius Dickmann, sent to Ann
Fried Buchsbaum, have been donated to the Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes,
in Vienna, Austria (http://www.doew.at/), and the papers of Ruth Neu and her husband, Kurt, which
contain a book of appreciation given to Ruth Neu by the children of the home she worked at in The
Hague in 1940, are located at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York
(http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=431060). The Ann Fried Buchsbaum collection at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum also contains an apron that Julius Dickmann obtained in Yugoslavia, and
brought back to his niece, Ann, which is cataloged separately from the papers.
Accruals: Accruals may have been received since this collection was first processed, see archives catalog
at collections.ushmm.org for further information.
Processing history: Processed by Brad Bauer, October 2016.
Biographical note
Ann Fried Buchsbaum was born on 30 April 1923 in Vienna, Austria as Anni Fried, the daughter of
Bernard (Judka) Fried and Laura (née Dickmann) Fried. Her father was originally from Russia, and
worked in Vienna for a shoe manufacturer, while her mother, who worked as a milliner, had come from
Stanisławow, Poland (present-day Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). At the age of 15, and following the
German annexation of Austria, the Frieds were able to send their daughter to live in the Netherlands in
December 1938, with the help of a family friend. For most of the next year, she lived in “Huis
Overvoorde,” a dormitory for girls from the ages of 4 to 16, in Rijswijk, near The Hague. A committee of
women oversaw the dormitory, including Ruth Warburg Neu, a clinical psychologist and counselor.
While living there, Ann, being one of the older girls, worked as a housekeeper, and also travelled
repeatedly to the United States consulate in Rotterdam, seeking a visa, which she eventually obtained.
In August 1939, she left Europe, setting sail on the Ile-de-France, and upon arrival in New York, went to
live with the family of her father’s brother, Abraham Fried, in the Bronx. Shortly after her arrival, she
met another refugee from Austria, Walter Buchsbaum, who she eventually married in 1944, while he
was serving in the U.S. Army. The Buchsbaums had one son, Robert (born 1950), and settled in Queens.
Shortly after Ann left Vienna, her parents divorced, and were able to emigrate, with Laura travelling to
London, where she worked as a maid, and Bernard to Palestine. It was in London that Laura met Alois
Faktor, an émigré from Czechoslovakia who was serving in that country’s government-in-exile, and they
married around 1940. Following the war, they returned to Czechoslovakia, living in Prague, before
immigrating to Canada (although Laura had tried to immigrate to the United States), where they lived
the remainder of their lives. Bernard also remarried, and died in Israel in 1950, without Ann ever having
seen him following her own emigration in 1938. The remaining members of Laura’s family who stayed
in Austria were murdered during the Holocaust, including Laura’s brother and Ann’s uncle, Julius
Dickmann, the noted Marxist political theoretician, to whom Ann was especially close. Dickmann, who
was deported to Belzec in 1942, sent Ann several postcards describing his experiences in Vienna in the
months leading up to his deportation.
Scope and content of collection
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Documents, photographs, and other materials related to Ann Fried Buchsbaum, originally of Vienna,
Austria; her parents, Bernard (Judka) Fried and Laura Dickmann Fried Faktor; as well as stepfather, Alois
(Lou) Faktor, originally of Prague, and his family. These materials are chiefly related to their lives in
prewar Vienna, their efforts following the German annexation of Austria to leave that country, Ann’s
time at a children’s dormitory in Holland (1938-1939), and Laura and Alois’ time in London and Prague.
Also included are photographs of Ann’s husband, Walter Buchsbaum, a refugee from Vienna, who
served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
The documents consist primarily of travel documents, such as passports, notices of application for visas,
and related documents for members of Ann Fried Buchsbaum’s family. Included are passports for her
mother and stepfather, Laura and Alois Faktor; a notice from the American Consulate in Vienna showing
that Bernard Fried had applied for a visa to immigrate; and copies of documents related to Ann Fried’s
departure for the Netherlands and the United States. Also included are memorial books used by Alois
Faktor’s family in the early 1900s, and two postcards from Ruth Neu, one addressed to the “girls of
Huize Overvoorde” in 1939, and the other sent to Ann in 1941, after Neu’s immigration to the United
States.
The photographs consist largely of images of Ann Fried Buchsbaum’s childhood in Vienna, of her parents
during that period, as well as of Laura and Alois in London and Czechoslovakia in the 1940s. Also
included are 10 images of Ann and the other children of Huize Overvoorde during the period when Ann
lived there. Images of the families of Laura and Alois Faktor are also included.
System of arrangement
The collection is arranged in two series: I. Documents, II. Photographs, in alphabetic order by folder
title.
Indexing terms
Personal names
Fried, Bernard.
Faktor, Laura.
Faktor, Alois.
Neu, Ruth.
Buchsbaum, Walter.
Topical headings
Jews--Austria--Vienna.
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
Jewish refugees--Netherlands.
Jewish refugees--Great Britain.
Jewish refugees--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic headings
Rijswijk (Netherlands)
Vienna (Austria)
Prague (Czech Republic)
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CONTAINER LIST
Documents, 1908-1986
1
Dickmann, Rachel: certificate of grave location, 1927
2
Fried, Ann: childhood and emigration, 1929-1945
3
Fried, Ann: restitution, 1963-1986
4
Fried, Bernard (Judka), 1938, and photocopies of own and father’s birth certificates
5
Fried, Bernard (Judka) and Laura: wedding and divorce documents, 1922, 1935
6
Faktor, Alois: military documents (Czech), naturalization certificate and passport
(British), 1942-1949
7
Faktor family: memorial books, 1908-1932
8
Faktor, Leopold: passport, (Czechoslovak, issued 1929)
9
Faktor, Laura: biographical, 1907-1940
10
Faktor, Laura: immigration applications, United States and Canada, 1940-1956
11
Faktor, Laura: passports and identification (Czechoslovak, British, U.S.), 1947-1950
12
Neu, Ruth: postcards to Ann, 1939-1941
Photographs, 1927-1948
13
Buchsbaum, Ann Fried: childhood, Austria, circa 1927-1939
14
Buchsbaum, Ann Fried: Netherlands, circa 1938-1939
15
Buchsbaum, Ann Fried: New York, 1939
16
Buchsbaum, Walter, 1943-1945
17
Dickmann family, circa 1920 and undated
18
Faktor, Alois and Laura, circa 1940-1948
19
Faktor family, undated, prior to 1939
20
Fried, Bernard (Judka) and Laura, 1922-1945
21
Various family members (2017 accretion), 1928-1944
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