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Berg and Hermanns families collection

Collection

Collection Summary: The collection includes a cake server, cooking pot, Kenyan statues, silver spoon, steamer trunk, prayer book, biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Clara and Max Berg and their extended family in Germany before their escape to Kenya and their life in Kenya during the Holocaust, and their postwar immigration to the United States and the Hermanns family and Julius Hermanns’ journey aboard the MS St. Louis, return to Europe, and internment in France. An accretion of five WWI medals was received in 2016.
Provenance: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015, and 2016 by Inge and Werner Katzenstein and Jill and Kurt Pauly.
Date: approximately 1880-1957

Geography: received: Eilendorf (Germany)
Date: received: approximately 1927
Date: inclusive: circa 1880-1957
Geography: received: Lechenich (Germany)
use: Kenya
Date: emigration: approximately 1939 June
Geography: creation: Kenya
received: Kenya
Date: received: after 1939 June-before 1947 March
Geography: creation: Kenya
received: Kenya
Date: received: after 1938 July-before 1947 March
Geography: received: Lechenich (Germany)
use: Kenya
Date: emigration: approximately 1939 June
Geography: use: Monchengladbach (Germany)
Date: received: approximately 1930
Geography: acquired: Cologne (Germany)
Date: manufacture: 1938
emigration: 1938
: Record last modified: 2020-06-17 09:29:39
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