Overview
- Description
- Photographic vintage images and documents illustrating the experiences of Sigismund and Margaret Beres, Austrian Jewish citizens who fled to Switzerland from Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938. Included are images of their lives in Switzerland, Sigismund specifically, in forced labor, as well as a July 1938 police certificate documenting Sigismund's travel to Vienna to acquire an American visa. Also included are identification cards issued in Switzerland in 1946 which illustrate the family’s immigration to the United States in 1947.
- Date
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1938-1947
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Louis Beres
- Collection Creator
- Louis Beres
- Biography
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Sigismund and Margaret Beres were Austrian Jewish citizens who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 to Switzerland, where they remained throughout World War II and where their son, Louis Rene Beres was born in 1945. The family immigrated to the United States in 1947.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Switzerland. United States--Emigration and immigration.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:35:59
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn34622
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