Overview
- Description
- Relates to the life of Margaret and Ernest Iglauer, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1938. The collection details the couple's sojourns in England, the Netherlands, Belgium,and France during World War II, their stay in refugee camps in Switzerland, and their subsequent emigration to the United States.
- Date
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inclusive:
1937-1994
bulk: 1937-1946
- Collection Creator
- Margaret Iglauer
- Biography
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Margaret Iglauer was born on 2 December 1910 in Nürnberg, Germany, and married Ernest Iglauer in 1936. She and her husband lived in Nürnberg until November 1938 when the events of Kristallnacht prevented Ernest’s return to Germany after a business trip abroad. After Margaret’s escape from Germany in December 1938, she reunited with her husband in the Netherlands, where they eventually settled in Amsterdam after a brief stay in England in 1939. Ernest Iglauer moved his hops exporting business, Gebrüder Tuchmann, to Amsterdam in 1939. When new restrictions on Jews in the Netherlands were introduced by the Nazi occupation force in 1942, the Iglauers fled to Switzerland via Belgium and France where they were assisted by the French Underground movement. In Switzerland, the Iglauers were separated into different refugee camps. Margaret Iglauer stayed at a camp run by the Salvation Army in Lausanne for several months in 1942, and then was transferred to other refugee camps in Lausanne and then in Basel. Ernest Iglauer stayed in Lausanne where he worked for the Schweizerische Jüdische Flüchtlingshilfe, an aid organization for displaced persons. The Iglauers remained in Switzerland until 1945, when they returned to the Netherlands. After a brief stay in England, Margaret and Ernest Iglauer immigrated to the United States in Dec. 1946.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Letters. Identification cards. Certificates. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Pamphlets. Autobiographies.
- Extent
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6 folders
- System of Arrangement
- Organized into three series:
Series 1: Margaret Iglauer's memoir
Series 2: Documents regarding Margaret and Ernest Iglauer's flight from Nazi Germany
Series 3: Miscellaneous documents
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.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements. Refugees, Jewish. Refugee camps--Switzerland. Jews--Switzerland. Jews--Netherlands. Humanitarian assistance.
- Geographic Name
- Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945. United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. Switzerland
- Personal Name
- Iglauer, Margaret. Iglauer, Ernest.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- This collection was donated by Margaret Iglauer to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-30 12:33:42
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