Overview
- Description
- Contains photographs and correspondence relating to and illustrating the experinces of Frieda Rosenzweig and her family. Frieda was originally from Mikulince, Poland, immigrated to the USA and received correspondence from cousins and siblings who remained in Europe through WWII.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Larry and Nancy Jankner, Muriel and David Benjamin, and Karen and Robert Falk
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Letters.
- Extent
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3 folders
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
- Mr. Robert Falk
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Karen and Robert Falk (Frieda's niece and her husband), Larry and Nancy Jankner (Frieda's son and his wife), and Muriel and David Benjamin (Frieda's niece and her husband).
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:43:30
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Also in Frieda Rosenzweig Jankner family collection
The collection consists of a clothes hanger, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Frieda Rosenzweig Jankner, who immigrated to the United States in 1911, and her family members who lived in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust.
Date: approximately 1933-approximately 1945
Wooden hanger from prewar Vienna
Object
Wooden coat hanger from Moderne Bekleidung, Hermann Blauner’s clothing store in Vienna, Austria. Hermann’s wife Klara had a cousin, Frieda Jankner, who visited the family in 1933 and took the hanger back to the United States. Nazi Germany annexed Austria in March 1938. Hermann was arrested during Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938. He was sent to Dachau concentration camp, where he died in fall 1939. Hermann and Klara’s son Kurt was deported to Maly Trostenets killing site in September 1942. Klara is presumed to have perished.