Porcelain souvenir dish of the Marchenbrunnen owned by a young German Jewish prewar emigre
- Date
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emigration:
1936 December
- Geography
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creation:
Dusseldorf (Germany)
- Language
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German
- Classification
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Decorative Arts
- Category
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Ceramics
- Object Type
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Souvenir plates (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ruth Dublon Grossmann
Basket shaped porcelain souvenir dish owned by Rosa Dublon, who in 1936, at the age of 9, left Germany with her mother Erna and five year old sister Herta for the United States. The dish has a painted image of the Marchenbrunnen, or fairy tale fountain, located in Hofgarten park in Dusseldorf. After 1933, the Nazi dictatorship that now governed Germany increasingly persecuted Jewish residents. Rosa's parents Erna and Siegfried divorced in the mid-1930s and Erna and the girls moved to her hometown of Mertloch. Erna's sister Helen Lederer had lived in the United States since at least 1930. She sponsored their 1936 emigration to New York to live with her in Queens. Helen also sponsored the emigration of her father, Samuel Wolf, and siblings, Jakob Wolf and Thekla Daniel, and their families. Ruth's father Siegfried is assumed to have perished in the Holocaust.
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Also in Ruth Dublon Grossmann collection
The collection consists of a souvenir dish, spoon and box, autograph book, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ruth Dublon and her family before the Holocaust in Wittlich and Mertloch, Germany.
Ruth Dublon Grossmann papers
Document
Contains six pre-war photographs of the family of Ruth Dublon Grossman, originally of Wittlich, Germany, and one autograph book, given to Ruth in 1935, prior to her emigration the following year, and filled with inscriptions from her friends and relatives in Germany (in Wittlich and Mertloch), as well as friends and teachers in New York, following her arrival there.
Silver souvenir spoon with the Bonn coat of arms with a fitted box owned by a young German Jewish prewar emigre
Object
Small souvenir spoon with a painted coat of arms and fitted box owned by Rosa Dublon, who in 1936, at the age of 9, left Germany with her mother Erna and five year old sister Herta for the United States. After 1933, the Nazi dictatorship that now governed Germany increasingly persecuted Jewish residents. Rosa's parents Erna and Siegfried divorced in the mid-1930s and Erna and the girls moved to her hometown of Mertloch. Erna's sister Helen Lederer had lived in the United States since at least 1930. She sponsored their 1936 emigration to New York to live with her in Queens. Helen also sponsored the emigration of her father, Samuel Wolf, and siblings, Jakob Wolf and Thekla Daniel, and their families. Ruth's father Siegfried is assumed to have perished in the Holocaust.