Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of a camera with case, a medal, documents, oral testimony, and photographs related to the experiences of Renee Kann (later Silver), her parents, Edmund and Friedel Klaber Kann, and her sister, Edith (later Roth) in Germany and France before the war, in France and Switzerland, including their imprisonment in Gurs internment camp, during the war, and in Switzerland, France, and the United States after the war.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Renee Kann Silver.
Browse 4 Items In This Collection
Oral testimony of Edmund Kann
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.478.2 | RG Number: RG-50.833.0001
Voigtlander Bessa camera and case used by a German Jewish family while imprisoned in Gurs
Object | Accession Number: 2013.478.3 a-b
manufacture: Braunschweig (Germany)
manufacture: after 1929-before 1936
Bronze Marshal Petain medal given to a Jewish girl living as a refugee in France
Object | Accession Number: 2013.478.4
issue: Vichy (France)
issue: after 1940-before 1946
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