Firnbacher family papers
Contains documents, identification cards, passports and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Maier Firnbacher, his wife Ida, and their son Manfred, who immigrated to the United States from Straubing, Germany, in January 1939. Includes Deutsches Reich Reisepass, Kennkarten, and Manfred's report cards. Documentation regarding two medals awarded to Maier, the Merit Cross issued in 1916 and the Iron Cross issued in 1934, for his actions in the first World War as a German soldier. Included are documents forbidding Maier, a "jüdische Viehhändler" from the local slaughterhouse; Jewish property tax receipts; a postcard written by Maier in the Dachau concentration camp to Ida and Manfred in 1938; and postwar Red Cross correspondence concerning the fates of Maier and Ida's parents, siblings, nieces and nephews.
- Language
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German
- Genre/Form
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Passports.
Correspondence.
- Extent
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1 folder
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fred Firnbacher
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Record last modified: 2022-07-28 17:51:08
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Also in Maier Firnbacher family collection
The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Maier Firnbacher, his wife, Ida, their son, Manfred, and other family members in Straubing, Germany, before and during the Holocaust and following the family's emigration to the United States in 1939.
Date: 1916 November-1946 October 04
WWI Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with Swords and fitted box awarded to a German Jewish veteran
Object
Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with Swords and fitted case of issue awarded to Maier Firnbacher in 1916 for bravery while serving in the German Army during World War I. Maier was a cattle trader in Straubing, Germany, when Hitler came to power in 1933. Jews were forbidden to practice certain professions and, in 1936, Maier's trading license was revoked. In 1938, he was forced to sell his farmland at a loss to a non-Jew. He got immigration visas for the United States for himself, his wife, Ida, and their 8 year old son, Manfred, then was arrested during Kristallnacht on November 10. He was released after three weeks in Dachau concentration camp. The family sailed from Rotterdam, Netherlands, on January 28, 1939 and settled near Washington, DC.
WWI Iron Cross medal awarded to a German Jewish veteran
Object
Iron Cross awarded to Maier Firnbacher for bravery while serving in the German Army during World War I; it was issued in 1934. Maier was a cattle trader in Straubing, Germany, when Hitler came to power in 1933. Jews were forbidden to practice certain professions and in 1936, Maier's trading license was revoked. In 1938, he was forced to sell his farmland at a loss to a non-Jew. He got immigration visas for the United States for himself, his wife, Ida, and their 8 year old son, Manfred, but was arrested during Kristallnacht on November 10. He was released after three weeks in Dachau concentration camp. The family sailed from Rotterdam, Netherlands, on January 28, 1939 and settled near Washington, DC.
