Fred Vendig family collection
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of wartime drawings, a pocket calendar, correspondence, papers, photographs, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Ernst and Charlotte Vendig, their sons Fritz (Fred) and Heiner (Henry) and their family before and during the Holocaust in Germany, during their unsuccessful 1939 voyage on the M.S. St. Louis, their internment in French detention camps and escape to Switzerland, and their emigration to the United States after the war.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Fred Vendig and in 2013 by Stephanie Vendig, wife of Fred Vendig.
- Date
- 1859-2002
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- Geography
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publication:
Berlin (Germany)
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publication:
1949
- Geography
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creation:
Gurs (Concentration camp);
Gurs (France)
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creation:
after 1940 May-before 1940 December
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
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creation:
1944 December 04
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
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creation:
1945 July 08
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
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creation:
1944 December 17
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
- Date
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creation:
1944 April
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
- Date
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creation:
1944
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
- Date
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creation:
approximately 1944-1945
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
- Date
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creation:
approximately 1944
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
- Date
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creation:
approximately 1945
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
- Date
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creation:
approximately 1944-1945
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
- Date
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creation:
1945 April
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
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creation:
1944 July 21
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
- Date
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creation:
approximately 1945
- Geography
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creation:
Maur (Switzerland)
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creation:
1944
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creation:
approximately 1946
- Geography
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use:
Maur (Switzerland)
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use:
approximately 1939-approximately 1946
- Geography
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use:
Maur (Switzerland)
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use:
approximately 1939-approximately 1946
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Record last modified: 2019-12-04 16:04:08
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Browse 19 Items In This Collection
Heimatlos auf hoher See
Object | Accession Number: 1999.317.2
Portrait of a pipe smoking man interned at Gurs drawn by another inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.2
German Jewish refugee child's still life of an apple, ashtray, and a smoking pipe
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.3
Child's drawing of trees along the lake done by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.4
Child's sketch of 2 boys parading with a Swiss flag by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.5
Child's watercolor of a house near a lake in the Alps by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.6
Child's drawing of 2 houses near the mountains by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.7
Child's sketch of a man listening to a radio drawn by a young German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.8
Child's drawing of a faraway house by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.9
Child’s pencil sketch of 2 boys in beds listening to the radio by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.10
Child’s drawing of train tracks approaching a tunnel by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.11
Child's drawing of a large ocean liner by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.12
Child's watercolor of a house near a road leading to the Alps by a young Jewish boy
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.13
Child's two sided drawing of a house and 4 watercolor studies by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.14
Child's depiction of an imagined aerial battle drawn by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.15
Child's collage of a man's face over New York City by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.16
Black leather photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.17
Faux alligator photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.18