Ahnenpass

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.476.1

Overview

Description: Contains an "Ahnenpass" issued to Karl Haiblen (donor's father) that documents his family ancestry to prove that he was of "pure Aryan blood." Dated October 6th, 1938; Tübingen, Germany.
Date: 1938 October 06
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Alfred Haiblen

Language: German
Extent: 1 folder
System of Arrangement: Karl Haiblen married Lotte Sachs (donor’s mother) and they lived in Koeln with their son Hans Dieter (donor). Lotte and her mother fled Nazi Germany to England in January 1939. Hans Dieter also went to England at the same time where he went to school in January 1940 and where he was then interned on May 12, 1940 in the Huyton internment camp near Liverpool before being shipped to Canada where he was interned in multiple camps before being released on January 10, 1942 in Quebec.

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Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Issued to Karl Haiblen (donor's father) in October 1938, Tubingen, Germany. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Alfred Haiblen c/o his daughter Barbara Rugo.