Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Swimming cerificate issued to Marianne Winter for a 200 m. competition, October 31, 1937.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marianne Selinger
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Information Forms
- Category
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Certificates
- Object Type
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Certificates (aat)
- Physical Description
- Rectangular paper certificate with attached print of swimmers diving into a pool.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 12.598 inches (31.999 cm) | Width: 9.449 inches (24 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- Restrictions on use. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum does not own copyright to this material. No information about the copyright was included on the Deed of Gift.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The certificate was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Marianne Selinger.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 21:51:16
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Also in Winter family collection
Documents, correspondence, photographs, and certificate illustrating the experiences of Marianne Winter, a refugee from Nazi occupied Austria, who fled with her parents Max and Anna and her brother Stephan. Included are letters to Jane Bomberger in Reading, PA who was Marianne's pen pal since 1935 and whose parents assisted the Winters in immigrating to the United States. Also included are pre-war images of Winter's family, report cards for Marianne, materials documenting Marianne's participation in competitive swimming for Hakoach.
Winter family papers
Document
The collection documents the experiences of Max and Anna Winter, along with their children Marianne and Stephen, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1939 with the assistance of Joseph Bomberger, the father of Marianne’s pen pal Jane Bomberger in Reading, PA. The collection consists of immigration paperwork for the Winter family, including Austrian and Czechoslovakian passports, affidavits, and ship tickets; correspondence between the Winters and Bombergers; a small amount of biographical material related to Marianne; and photographs. Also included is immigration material related to Max’s brother Josef Winter who immigrated to Shanghai, and Max’s unsuccessful attempts to rescue his father Leopold Winter from Austria. Biographical materials consist of identification papers of Marianne including a certificate of nationality, an identification card for a Jewish swimming club, report cards, and a schoolbook. Immigration materials consists of the immigration paperwork for the Winter family, including Austrian and Czechoslovakian passports, affidavits, tickets for their passage to the United States on the SS Conti di Savoia; papers related to Max’s brother Josef Winter who immigrated to Shanghai including his German passport; documentation related to Max’s unsuccessful attempts to help his father Leopold emigrate from Austria in 1941-1942; and affidavits related to Max’s attempts to rescue Emil and Annie Baumsteiger and Anne’s brother Karl and his wife Elsie. Correspondence includes pen pal letters from Marianne in Austria to Jane in Reading, PA, and letters between Max and Jane’s father Joseph regarding the Bomberger’s efforts to help the Winter family immigrate to the United States. Photographs include pre-war photographs of the Winter family in Vienna and Prague, as well as wartime photographs after they immigrated to the United States.
