Overview
- Description
- Account of the Lenkway family’s life in Cologne, Germany: persecution under the Nazis, escape from Germany in 1938, their odyssey through several European countries before emigrating to the US in 1941.
- Collection Creator
- Kurt Lenkway
- Biography
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Kurt Lenkway, born in Germany, fled in 1938 with his Jewish family and immigrated to the United States in 1941.
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Kurt Lenkway
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Dr. Linda Gordon Kuzmack, former Director of the USHMM's Oral History Department received the manuscript copy from Eve Mannes in Jan. 1991 which subsequently obtained a signed donor agreement from Mr. Lenkway. That department passed it on to USHMMA in July 1992.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:06:45
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