Overview
- Description
- Consists of documents that relate the Holocaust era experiences of Hermine Berkovits, a French Jewish woman who survived the war with her children. Her children spent the war in hiding, and while using false papers, she helped to find hiding places for other Jewish children. Includes a copy of a photograph of Hermine, her children, and the children she helped to hide. Also included is a copy of a letter from the Red Cross stating that Henrich Berkovits (Hermine's husband) perished in Auschwitz.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs. Certificates.
- Extent
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1 folder
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.
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- France.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Dorothy Shapiro donated these documents regarding her aunt to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Mar. 17, 2004.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:21:15
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn521809
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