Overview
- Description
- The Daisy Herrmann Kummer family papers document the Herrmann family of Vienna, Daisy’s years as a refugee in France, and the family’s immigration to the United States. Documents include birth, marriage, residence, baptism, naturalization, and death certificates; identification and military papers; letters from the American Committee of the OSE and the Baronness Germaine de Rothschilde; and a handwritten scouting manual Daisy kept while a member of the Éclaireuses éclaireurs israélites de France (E.I.F.) prior to leaving France.
- Date
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inclusive:
1893-1963
bulk: 1930-1948
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Peter Kummer
- Collection Creator
- Daisy H. Kummer
- Biography
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Daisy Kummer (1926-1972) was born Daisy Yvonne Herrmann on February 12, 1926 in Vienna, Austria to lawyer Adolf Herrmann (1880-1947) and his wife Alice (nee Gerber, 1890-1970). Adolf Herrmann was born in Halenkov, Czech Republic, and Alice Herrmann was born in Zolochiv, Ukraine. Daisy had one brother, John Erwin Herrmann (Hans, 1922-2003). John immigrated to the United States aboard the SS Hansa in July 1938, a few months after the German annexation of Austria. Adolf and Alice joined him in the United States in November 1939, sailing from Rotterdam aboard the SS Rotterdam. Daisy was sent to France in spring 1939, where she found refuge at the children’s home at the Chateau de la Guette, a mansion owned by Edouard and Germaine de Rothschild near Paris. La Guette was evacuated in May 1940 to the Hotel des Anglais in the village of La Bourboule. Daisy finally joined her family in the United States in June 1941, sailing aboard the SS Mouzinho from Lisbon. She married Philip Kummer in New York in 1948.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Letters.
- Extent
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6 folders
- System of Arrangement
- The Daisy Herrmann Kummer family papers are arranged by family member.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Corporate Name
- Éclaireuses et éclaireurs unionistes de France
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Peter Kummer donated the Daisy Herrmann Kummer family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-15 09:28:39
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