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Scheiner family papers

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0266

Overview

Description: The Scheiner family papers consists of a German passport issued to David Scheiner, Bertha Scheiner Freud’s brother, on September 8, 1938; a German passport issued to Helene Scheiner, Bertha Freud’s sister-in-law, on May 6, 1940; a German certificate issued by S. Katz & Co. in Vienna, Austria stating that Berta (Bertha) Scheiner has been dismissed as part of the Aryanization of the company, June 30, 1938; a letter in German from the Oesterreichische Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein stating that the bearer Berta Scheiner is allowed to take RM 30 to England and that no other privileges have been granted, September 17, 1938; a 3-page handwritten letter in English from Ann Hartley to Berta Scheiner and Miss Salpeter regarding their cousin’s efforts to secure permits for them to come to England, May 23, 1938; and a personal account / memoir entitled “My Encounter with a Nazi Student,” by Esther Knopf Scheiner, Bertha Freud’s sister-in-law, February 1992.
Date: inclusive: 1938-1992
bulk: 1938-1940

Physical Details

Language: German English
Genre/Form: Passports. Certificates. Correspondence.
Extent: 1 folder
System of Arrangement: The Scheiner family papers is arranged in a single series.

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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.

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945. Banks and banking, Austrian.
Geographic Name: Germany. Japan. Soviet Union. Austria
Personal Name: Scheiner, David. Scheiner, Helene. Scheiner, Esther Knopf. Freud, Bertha Scheiner. Hartley, Ann.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Bertha S. Freud donated the Scheiner family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

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