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Cohn and Falkenstein families collection

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    Collection Summary
    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, identification cards, passports, a wallet, medals, military awards, and military booklets illustrating the experiences of the extended Cohn and Falkenstein families in Germany and La Paz, Bolivia in the late 1930s. Also included is information about Friedrich Cohn and Inge Falkenstein, the donor's parents, who met and married in Bolivia.
    Provenance
    The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2023 by Max Cohn, the son of Friedrich Cohn and Inge Falkenstein.
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    Cohn and Falkenstein families papers

    Document | Accession Number: 2023.181.1

    Date
    creation:  approximately 1935-approximately 1940
    Wallet owned by a member of the Cohn or Falkenstein families

    Object | Accession Number: 2023.181.2

    Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service medal owned by a member of the Cohn or Falkenstein families

    Object | Accession Number: 2023.181.3

    Geography
    issue: Germany
    Date
    commemoration:  1914-1918
    issue:  1934 July 13-1944
    Cross-shaped medal owned by a member of the Cohn or Falkenstein families

    Object | Accession Number: 2023.181.4

    Commemorative Prussian Koniggratz Cross medal owned by a member of the Cohn or Falkenstein families

    Object | Accession Number: 2023.181.5

    Date
    commemoration:  1866 July 03
    Commemorative Kaiser Wilhelm I Medal owned by a member of the Cohn or Falkenstein families

    Object | Accession Number: 2023.181.6

    War Commemorative Medal of 1870-1871 owned by a member of the Cohn or Falkenstein families

    Object | Accession Number: 2023.181.7

    Date
    commemoration:  1870-1871
    Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 buttonhole ribbon bar with swords owned by a member of the Cohn or Falkenstein families

    Object | Accession Number: 2023.181.8

    Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar owned by a member of the Cohn or Falkenstein families

    Object | Accession Number: 2023.181.9

    Ribbon fragment owned by a member of the Cohn or Falkenstein families

    Object | Accession Number: 2023.181.10

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