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Erwin and Lore Gotthelf Jacobs collection

Collection
Collection Summary
The collection consists of two steamer trunks, one of which was sent to Lore Gotthelf (later Jacobs) who left Frankfurt-am Main, Germany, on the Kindertransport to England, and the other was used by her husband, Erwin Jacobowitz (later Jacobs), when he immigrated to England in 1939 from Berlin, Germany.
Provenance
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Lore Gotthelf Jacobs.
Date
approximately 1939
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Trunk used by Erwin Jacobowitz when he emigrated from Germany

Object | Accession Number: 2003.355.1

Geography
use: Germany
use: England
use: Canada
Date
use:  1939 August
use:  1953
Trunk used by Erwin Jacobowitz when he emigrated from Germany

Trunk sent to Lore Gotthelf, a Kindertransport refugee, in England

Object | Accession Number: 2003.355.2

Geography
use: Germany
use: England
use: Canada
Date
use:  approximately 1939 July
use:  1953
Trunk sent to Lore Gotthelf, a Kindertransport refugee, in England
 
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