Marburg family collection

The Marburg family collection consists of letters and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Lily Marburg, originally of Vienna, Austria. The family correspondence from Vienna, Luxembourg and the Bayogne detention camp relates to the attempts of various family members to escape and emigrate from Austria. Lily Marburg from Vienna, Austria. After the Anschluss, Lily was in Switzerland. She traveled to Italy where she obtained a job as a dancer and eventually traveled to North Africa with the dance company of Esmanoff and Gerda. She spent the war in Tangier, where she met her husband.