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Gershon Kufert papers

Document | Accession Number: 1996.165.1

Photographic postcard of two women holding a baby. The two women are Frieda Kufert (née Kranz) and her mother. The baby is Frieda's daughter Lea Kufert. All perished in the Holocaust.

Date
creation:  1939
Genre/Form
Photograph.
Extent
1 folder
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gershon Kufert

About This Document

Document Creator
Kufert family
Biography
Frieda Kufert (née Kranz) was born on January 6, 1909 in Berlin, Germany. She married and her daughter Lea Kufert was born on December 21, 1938. The family was sent to the Łódź ghetto, where Lea died. Her mother, Frieda Kufert either died in the Łódź ghetto in 1939 or Chełmno concentration camp in 1942.
System of Arrangement
The Gershon Kufert papers is arranged in a single series.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Martha Craig donoated the Gershon Kufert papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996.
Funding Note
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use
Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.

 
Record last modified: 2021-11-10 13:01:06
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Also in This Collection

Pair of red leather toddler's shoes worn by a child in Łódź Ghetto

Pair of red leather toddler's shoes worn by a child in Łódź Ghetto

Object

Pair of red leather toddler's shoes that belonged to Lea Kufert, who was born in December 1938 to Yitzkhak and Fridl. The family was deported from Berlin, Germany, to the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1939. Lea died there that year. Fridl was deported to Chelmno killing center and murdered in 1942. Yitzkhak died in the Łódź ghetto in 1944. The shoes were sent to relatives in Palestine.

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