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Susan Camis papers

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.543.1

Overview

Description: The papers consist of three photographs, two letters, a telegram, and two certificates documenting the Kollmann family during the Holocaust. Includes a letter and photograph sent to Susan Camis from Anna and Ernst Kollmann, Susan Camis's great aunt and uncle, who fled to Shanghai, China, from Vienna, Austria, in 1939; a telegram from Anna and Ernst Kollmann prior to their immigration to the United States in 1949; a photograph of Herta Kollmann, Susan's great aunt, with her mother; a photograph of her with her husband, Walter, Susan's maternal grandmother's brother; a birth certificate issued to her in Vienna 1931; and their marriage certificate from Vienna in 1938; and a Red Cross letter documenting the fate of Heinrich (Joachim) and Marie Kollmann, Susan's great-grandparents, dated 1980. Herta and Walter Kollman fled Austria in 1938, living in Trinidad before immigrating to the United States.
Date: inclusive: 1918-1980
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Susan Camis
Collection Creator: Susan Camis

Physical Details

Genre/Form: Certificates. Telegrams. Letters. Photographs.
Extent: 1 folder

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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.

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Jews--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century. Refugees, Jewish--China--Shanghai. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--China--Shanghai.
Geographic Name: Austria--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Personal Name: Kollmann, Anna. Kollmann, Ernst. Kollmann, Herta. Kollmann, Walter. Kollmann, Heinrich. Kollmann, Marie.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Susan Camis in 2005.

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