Overview
- Description
- Consists of a birth certificate, identity cards, naturalization certificates, and passports for Armando and Mathilde (née Sucher) Starkand. The collection includes pre-war German and Argentinian identity documents, and post-war documents in the United States.
- Date
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inclusive:
1910-1981
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lilian Kittower
- Collection Creator
- Armando Starkand
- Biography
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Armando Starkand was born in Warsaw, Poland, on July 16, 1902. He had a daughter, Lillian Starkand, who was born in Mainz, Germany, on October 27, 1929. On April 20, 1937, he married Mathilde Sucher, originally of Essen, Germany (b. April 29, 1910). In 1937, the family immigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to escape Nazi persecution. In 1949, they immigrated to the United States, settling in Nashville, TN. Armando Starkand passed away in 1988; Mathilde passed away in 2006.
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Emigration & immigration--Germany--1930-1940.
- Geographic Name
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- Personal Name
- Starkand, Armando. Starkand, Mathilde. Kittower, Lilian.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Lilian Kittower donated her parents' collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 with the assistance of Felicia Anchor of the Tennessee Commission on Holocaust Education.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:43:57
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn90263
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