Porges family papers

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2023.108.1

Overview

Description: Documents, correspondence, postcard and photographs illustrating the experiences of Arthur and Hermine Porges and their son Fritz of Vienna, Austria. The documents illustrate Fritz's flight to the United Kingdom with the Kindertransport, his mother's later arrival there and his father's flight to the east into Italy in an effort to leave. Arthur was then interned in Ferramonti concentration camp in Italy and later transferred to Fort Ontario, then to Oswego, in 1945. Hermine and Fritz reunited with Arthur in 1947.
Date: inclusive: circa 1923-1959
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ilene Nye

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Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2023 by Ilene Nye, daughter of Fritz Porges.