Overview
- Description
- Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Anny Silber (b. 1917) and her husband Otto Mandl (b. 1913) from Vienna, Austria [donor's parents]. Documents include school report cards, Deutsches Reich Reisepass [German passports], correspondence addressing their emigration from Austria and assistance by Otto's cousin Sam Kellner in New York. Also included are State Department letters concerning the 1941 emigration of Anny's parents Sigmund and Malvine from France and birth certificate for Otto ["Otto Bass recte Geiger" parents "Israel Bass recte Geiger und Adele geb. Bornstein"]. While Otto's mother and brother Fritz did emigrate from Vienna, his father did not.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lillian Rattner.
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Birth certificates. Report cards. Passports. Letters.
- Extent
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5 folders
1 oversize folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
- Copyright Holder
- Ms. Lillian Rattner
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Lillian Rattner.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:40:05
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn49899
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