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Gerda Abraham's resident's identity card issue to her in the Jeanne d'Arc refugee camp in Philippeville, Algeria.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 75431
Gerda Abraham's resident's identity card issue to her in the Jeanne d'Arc refugee camp in Philippeville, Algeria.

Gerda Abraham's resident's identity card issue to her in the Jeanne d'Arc refugee camp in Philippeville, Algeria.

Date
1945 February 15
Locale
Philippeville, [North Africa] Algeria
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Morocco/Tunisia/Algeria
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Hildegard Abraham

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Biography
Hans Leo (later Henry) Abraham (the husband of the donor) is the son of Siegfried (b. Ehringshausen, July 19, 1899) and Gerda Abraham, nee Schwarzstein (b. Berlin, February 26, 1911). Hans was born on September 23, 1933. He and his parents came from Hamburg, Germany and fled in 1935 to Amsterdam. Siegfried had worked as a stock broker in Hamburg, but he could not remain in his profession after immigrating and became a certified electrician. His younger sister Ruth was born in Holland on September 24, 1938. After the German invasion of The Netherlands in May 1940 their lives became endangered again. Wealthy friends from Hamburg, who had left for Switzerland early on while it was still possible to take their assets out of the country, sent them Haitian passports in May 1942. As foreign nationals, they were deported first to Westerbork and then to Bergen-Belsen in 1944. The family was chosen to be part of a prisoner exchange in January 1945 in which they were taken first to Switzerland, and then to Algeria on August 31, 1945. They remained in the UNRRA camp at Jeanne d'Arc at Philippeville until the end of the war. The Abrahams immigrated to the United States in 1946.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Hildegard Abraham
 
Record last modified: 2014-08-13 00:00:00
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