Overview
- Description
- Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs and documents related to the family of Sigismund Salo Rund, originally of Berlin, Germany. Contains affidavits and passports used by the family and photographs of the family home and of family life in the United States during and after the war. Also includes an extensive family tree created in 1933.
- Date
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inclusive:
1908-2004
- Collection Creator
- Sigismund S. Rund
- Biography
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Sigismund Salo Rund was a German diplomat in the early 1930s and also owned an oil refinery and extensive property. He paid the German authorities to let him emigrate to the United States along with his daughter, Ellen, and her family, in 1936. His son Werner emigrated to the United States from France in 1939, where he had married Edith Israelski. Sigismund Rund's wife, whom he had divorced in 1937, remained in Berlin and hid as an Aryan in southern Germany during the war.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs. Passports. Genealogical tables.
- Extent
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1 box
1 oversize box
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Doris Brooks donated her family's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jun. 7, 2004.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:09:49
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515059
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- Terms of Use
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