Overview
- Description
- Consists of photographs, correspondence, identity cards, and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Egon Feldmann and his mother, Sofie. Includes passports; Egon Feldmann's school documents (including medical school); tax documents from Vienna; material related to his immigration to Basel, Switzerland with his first wife, Else in 1939; correspondence between Sofie and the German Jewish Aid Committee in London in 1939; and Egon's life in the United States.
- Date
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inclusive:
1912-1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Harriet Feldmann
- Collection Creator
- Egon Feldmann
- Biography
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Egon Feldmann was born on August 17, 1906 in Vienna to Rudolph and Sofie (née Fleischner) Feldmann. Egon was raised by his mother. Egon received a PhD in English and then began medical school. Following the Anschluss, Egon was dismissed from medical school and began to search for ways to leave the country. The father of his girlfriend, Else, agreed to obtain a forged papers for him on condition that he marry his daughter. Egon left for Switzerland in 1939 and completed his last year of medical school in Basel. Egon and Else married in Switzerland. The following year they immigrated to the United States. Sofie, who had managed to immigrate to England, joined them the following year, but she died within a few years from breast cancer. Else and Egon divorced in 1941 and soon after he joined the Coast Guard as a physician. Egon Feldmann married Harriet in 1954. He passed away on October 1, 1984.
Physical Details
- Extent
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22 negatives.
- Extent
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7 folders
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
- Copyright Holder
- Mrs. Harriet Feldmann
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jews--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Vienna.
- Geographic Name
- Austria--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. London (England) Vienna (Austria) Basel (Switzerland)
- Personal Name
- Feldmann, Egon. Feldmann, Sofie.
- Corporate Name
- German Jewish Aid Committee
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Harriet Feldmann donated her late husband's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 08:08:55
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Also in Egon Feldmann collection
The collection consists of a luggage tag, correspondence, documents, identity cards, and photographs related to the experiences of Egon Feldmann and his mother, Sofie, before and during the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and Egon's immigration to Basel, Switzerland with his first wife, Else, in 1939, and later in the United States.
Date: 1912-1945
Luggage tag for the US used by a Jewish refugee from Vienna
Object
Luggage tag used by Egon Feldmann, who fled Vienna in 1939 with his first wife Elsie and then continued on the the United States. It is for the French Line Transatlantique, 3rd class, from Le Havre to New York via Southhampton.
