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Ellen M. Fine papers

Document | Accession Number: 1989.156

Date: 1939-1941 (inclusive)
Language: German
Extent: 1 folder
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ellen Fine

Document Creator: Ellen M. Fine
Biography: Ellen M. Fine was born in 1929 in Bingen, Germany to merchant Moritz Mayer (b. 1896) and Alice Mayer (b. 1902). Her father was imprisoned in Buchenwald for six weeks following Kristallnacht, and the family immigrated to the United States in 1940 after receiving affidavits from Moritz's brother in the United States. Alice's parents, Ferdinand and Bertha Simon, were unable to emigrate and were deported in 1942 to Theresienstadt, where they perished.
Topical Term: Jews--Germany--Bingen.
Merchants--Germany--Bingen.
Geographic Name: Bingen (Germany)
Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945.
Personal Name: Mayer, Moritz.
Mayer, Alice.
Simon, Ferdinand.
Simon, Bertha.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Ellen M. Fine donated the Ellen M. Fine papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2018-02-12 10:24:29
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