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Herbert Karliner family collection

Collection

Collection Summary: The collection consists of correspondence and prayer books relating to the experiences of Herbert Karliner and his family who fled Germany on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis, were separated after their return to France, when Herbert and his brother Walter were placed in a children's home and his parents, Martha and Josef, and two sister, Ilse and Ruth, were deported and killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Provenance: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Herbert Karliner.
Date: 1911-1944

Geography: publication: Berlin (Germany)
Geography: publication: Breslau (Germany)
Geography: publication: Breslau (Germany)
Date: publication: 1900
Geography: publication: Breslau (Germany)
Date: publication/distribution: 1911
Geography: publication: Breslau (Germany)
Date: publication/distribution: 1912
Geography: publication: Breslau (Germany)
Date: publication/distribution: 1911
Geography: publication: Breslau (Germany)
Date: publication/distribution: 1911
Geography: publication: Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
Geography: publication: Berlin (Germany)
Date: publication/distribution: 1916
: Record last modified: 2023-02-24 12:23:27
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