Simon family collection
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Overview
- Description
- The Simon family papers include correspondence, passports, photographic materials, and a War Bond documenting Julius, Gerda, and Lore Simon from Karlsruhe and their immigration to the United States in 1939. Correspondence includes a 1941 letter and six 1942 Red Cross forms from the Bundheim family in Assen, Germany to the Simon family in New York as well as 1946 Red Cross letter tracing the fates of Elias, Griet, Martha, and Erich Bundheim. A 1933 German passport documents Julius and Lore Simon, and a 1938 passport marked with a red “J” documents Gerda Simon. Photographs depict Lore with her parents, her aunts Jenny Gotschalk and Rosa Benjamin, her paternal uncle Sali Simon, her cousins Lutz and Ruth Benjamin and Margot Bundheim, grandfather Elias Bundheim, and other family and friends at home, in Karlsruhe, and on vacation. The collection also includes a $25 U.S. War Bond Julius and Gerda purchased for Lore and a newspaper clipping showing a photograph of the couple buying the bond from Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
- Date
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inclusive:
circa 1929-1946
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lore Simon Deutsch
- Collection Creator
- Simon family
- Biography
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Lore Deutsch was born Lore Simon on February 16, 1929 in Karlsruhe, Germany, to physician Julius Simon (1886-1953) and Gerda Simon (née Bundheim, 1906-1996). Julius’ parents were Leopold and Auguste Simon. Gerda’s parents were Elias (August 29, 1868-1942) and Martha Bundheim (November 6, 1876-1942), and she had two brothers, Erich (b. 1903) and Paul. Julius and Gerda met at a seaside resort, married in 1928, and had Lore in 1929. The Simon family immigrated to the United States in January 1939. Gerda’s brother Paul immigrated to South Africa with his wife and two children in the 1930s. Gerda’s parents and Margrieta (Griet) Bundheim van der Wijk (b. 1894) were deported on October 16, 1942 from Westerbork to Auschwitz and killed. Erich Bundheim (b. 1903) was deported on July 16, 1942 from Westerbork to Ravensbrück, but it is unclear where he perished.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Passports. Photographs.
- Extent
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4 folders
1 oversize box
- System of Arrangement
- The Simon family papers are arranged as a single series.
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- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Lore Deutsch donated the Simon family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:44:35
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Also in Julius Simon family collection
The collection consist of artifacts, clippings, correspondence, documents photograph prints and album relating to the experiences of Julius and Gerda Bundheim Simon and their daughter Lore before the Holocaust in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in the United States after their 1939 emigration.
Date: 1931-approximately 1940
Fragment from a Torah mantle destroyed during Kristallnacht
Object
Salvaged fragment of a burned Torah mantle cut and preserved by Julius Simon on November 10, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Karlsruhe, Germany. Julius Simon and his family escaped to New York in 1939.
