Overview
- Description
- Consists of digital images of documents and photographs related to Frances Cutler Hahn, who was born Fanny Lindenberg Kahan in Paris, France, in 1938. Includes photographs of her parents, Schlomo Zalman Kahane and Cyla Lindenberg, letters to their family in Poland, photographs of Fanny in wartime childrens' homes and post-war orphanages, and documents related to her immigration to the United States with the assistance of HIAS.
- Date
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inclusive:
circa 1932-1950
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Frances Cutler Hahn
- Collection Creator
- Frances C. Hahn
- Biography
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Frances Cutler Hahn was born Fanny Lindenberg Kahane on March 16, 1938 in Paris, France. Her parents, Schlomo Zalman Kahane and Cyla Lindenberg, came to Paris in 1936 from Poland. When Fanny was three, her parents placed her in a childrens' home prior to their own arrests. Cyla Kahane was deported on Convoy 11 from Drancy to Auschwitz in 1942, where she perished. After her father was warned that Fanny would soon be deported, he moved her to live with a Catholic family on a farm, where she remained until the end of the war. At the end of the war, Schlomo Kahane died in a hospital of tuberculosis. Fanny moved to several orphanages before immigrating to the United States with the assistance of HIAS, where she was adopted.
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Genre/Form
- Photographs. Letters.
- Extent
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digital images.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
- Copyright Holder
- Frances C. Hahn
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--France.
- Geographic Name
- Paris (France)
- Personal Name
- Hahn, Frances Cutler. Kahane, Schlomo. Kahane, Fanny.
- Corporate Name
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Frances Cutler Hahn donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 09:38:43
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn61441
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