Gene Selig family collection

Overview

Collection Summary

The collection consists of a Haggadah, a certificate, and photographs relating to the experiences of Siegfried and Hildegard Selig and their ten year old son Gert (Gene) during the Holocaust when they fled Frankfurt, Germany, and traveled on the trans-Siberian railway through China and Kobe, Japan, arriving in the United States in late 1940.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Gene Selig. This donation supplements and earlier donation made in 1992 by Gene Selig.