Edith and Ernst Mayer collection

Overview

Collection Summary

The collection consists of a Haftorah scroll, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ernst Mayer, who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States in 1939, and to those of Edith Kuechler Mayer, who fled Nazi Germany in 1938.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Stan Mayer, son of Edith and Ernst Mayer.