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Gustav and Stefi Geisel collection

Collection
Collection Summary
The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Stefi Siegel and her family in Germany before and during the Holocaust and of Stefi and Gustav Geisel in the United States during and after the Holocaust.
Provenance
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Stefi Geisel, the widow of Gustav Geisel.
Date
1920-1942
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Stefi Geisel papers

Document | Accession Number: 2005.288.1

Date
inclusive:  circa 1870-1956
bulk:  1914-1956
Stefi Geisel papers
Leather wallet with flap closure carried by a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany to the US

Object | Accession Number: 2005.288.2

Geography
use: Mosbach (Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Date
emigration:  1938
Leather wallet with flap closure carried by a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany to the US
Metal identification tag used by Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to the US

Object | Accession Number: 2005.288.3

Geography
use: Chicago (Ill.)
Date
use:  approximately 1942
emigration:  1938
Metal identification tag used by Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to the US
Book

Object | Accession Number: 2005.288.4

Geography
publication: New York (N.Y.)
Date
publication/distribution:  1956 October 23
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