Overview
- Description
- Contains identity cards, documents, and certificates from before, during, and after the Holocaust for Bozena Grunhut (nee Belska) and Abraham Gajer (later Gayer) [donor's parents] and their first spouses Robert Israel Kauders-Kuhe (later Jaros) and Nelli Hammer, and Robert's mother Adrienne Kauders-Kuhe.Also contains contains displaced persons (DP) camp materials, immigration and naturalization documents for Canada and USA, compensation claims, as well as correspondence concerning Nelli Gayer's treatment for psychological recovery from time in the concentration camps.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Susan Gayer Meeks
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Letters. Identification cards. Certificates.
- Extent
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5 folders
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Psychic trauma. Holocaust survivors.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Susan Gayer-Meeks.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-07-20 14:22:08
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Also in The Gajer and Kauders-Kuhe families collection
Identity cards, documents, certificates and scrip from before, during, and after the Holocaust for Bozena Grunhut (nee Belska) and Abraham Gajer (later Gayer) [donor's parents] and their first spouses Robert Israel Kauders-Kuhe (later Jaros) and Nelli Hammer, and Robert's mother Adrienne Kauders-Kuhe. In addition to identification paperwork, the collection contains DP camp materials, immigration and naturalization documents for Canada and USA, compensation claims, as well as correspondence concerning Nelli Gayer's treatment for PTSD related to her time in the concentration camps. Collection also includes documents, photographs and letters related to the Anna Gayer and her mother Nelly Hammer Gajer/Gayer; 3 cassettes containing oral history interviews between the donor Abraham Gayer. This material augments items donated by Susan Gayer Meeks (donor's half sister); it contains information about Nelly Hammer's life in Krakow, time in Krakow ghetto, Skarzysko-Kamienna, and HASAG Czestochowa as well as her marriage, divorce, and compensation papers. Also, bracelet worn by Nelly Hammer when she was institutionalized at a hospital in Nashville, TN in the 1950s as a result of her PTSD from her experiences during WWII.
Paper wrapper for Theresienstadt scrip
Object
Money wrapper for a stack of one hundred 100 kronen notes
Identification bracelet belonging to Nelly Gayer
Object
Identification bracelet worn by donor's mother, Nelly Hammer Gayer, while she was institutionalized at a hospital in Nashville, TN in the 1950s as a result of her PTSD stemming from her experiences in WWII.
Oral history interview with Abraham Gayer
Oral History
