Walter Gewing papers

Document | Accession Number: 2002.217.1

Consists of documents relating to the Gewing family's emigration to Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust. The papers include the donor's innoculation certificate for emigration into China and identification card for a Shanghai chapter of Berit (Brit Trumpeldor), a Chinese census form for the Gewing family, and the 26 September 1948 issue of the Shanghai Echo, a German-language newspaper.

Date: 1943-1948
Language: German
Chinese
English
Hebrew
Genre/Form: Newspapers.
Identification cards.
Extent: 1 folder
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Walter Gewing

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Topical Term: Jewish youth--China--Societies and clubs.
Refugees, Jewish--China--Shanghai.
Geographic Name: China--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Personal Name: Gewing, Walter.
Gewing, Max.
Corporate Name: Betar.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Walter Gewing in 2002.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2021-05-25 15:06:09
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The collection consists of archival materials and a three-dimensional object relating to the Gewing family's emigration to Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.