Doris Anne Brooks collection

Document | Accession Number: 2008.359

Collection consists of documents, photocopies, and passports relating to the family of Sigismund Salo Rund, originally of Berlin, Germany.

Genre/Form: Passports.
Letters.
Extent: 1 folder
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Doris Anne Brooks

Document Creator: Sigismund S. Rund
Biography: Sigismund Salo Rund was a German diplomat in the early 1930s and also owned an oil refinery and extensive property. He paid the German authorities to let him emigrate to the United States along with his daughter, Ellen, and her family, in 1936. His son Werner emigrated to the United States from France in 1939, where he had married Edith Israelski. Sigismund Rund's wife, whom he had divorced in 1937, remained in Berlin and hid as an Aryan in southern Germany during the war.
Geographic Name: Berlin (Germany).
Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Devorah Brooks
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.
: Record last modified: 2022-07-28 21:59:34
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