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The Stanwix Collection

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An extensive collection of 357 items from the first half of the Twentieth Century including documents and photos donated by Shirley Stanwix (formerly Cläre Freudenberg) who arrived as a ten year old in Western Australia in 1938 with her family as German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. The collection reflects the family's life in Germany (Bremen and Kiel) prior to their forced departure through to the establishment of successful lives in Western Australia. Importantly it provides telling evidence of the slow erosion of human rights for Jewish people under the Nazi regime, culminating in the death of Shirley's father in Esterwegen Concentration Camp in 1936 and the years of persecution that followed.

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The Stanwix collection is an extensive collection of 357 items, documents and photos donated by Shirley Stanwix (formerly Cläre Freudenberg) who arrived as a ten year old in Western Australia in 1938 with her family as German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. The collection reflects the family's life in Germany (Bremen and Kiel) prior to their forced departure through to the establishment of successful lives in Western Australia. Importantly it provides telling evidence of the slow erosion of human rights for Jewish people under the Nazi regime, culminating in the death of Shirley's father in Esterwegen Concentration Camp in 1936 and the years of persecution that followed. It includes: poignant and significant items such as the Iron Cross won by her Father for bravery in the First World War; an inventory of items taken by him into the concentration camp; some of these actual items; letters to and from her mother prior to his death; a Nazi 'Juden' pass compulsorily carried by her Grandmother and extensive documentation of these events. Shirley's story and the provenance of items in the collection have been recorded. The collection is the material evidence of a significant Western Australian story that has international resonance.

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Data time period: 1880 to 1979

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text: Bremen

text: Perth

text: Nedlands

text: Germany

text: Kiel

text: Esterwegen Concentration Camp

text: Western Australia

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Alice Freudenberg (Freeden) | Bremen | Cläre Freudenberg (Shirley Freeden) (Shiley Stanwix) | David Behrens | Documents | Esterwegen Concentration Camp | Fascists | Germany | Hans Brinnitzer (Hans Briner) | Holocaust | Jewish peoples | Jews | Kiel | Letters (Correspondence) | Lotti Brinnitzer (Lotti Briner) | National socialism | Nazis | Nedlands | Paula Behrens | Perth | Photographs | Photography | Weimar Republic | Western Australia | Western Australian Opera Company | World War One | World war Two | concentration camps | families | immigration | refugees | wars | world wars |

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