Jacobsohn family: papers and correspondence

Identifier
WL1829
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 71209
Dates
1 Jan 1900 - 31 Jan 2010
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • Spanish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

Biographical History

The Jewish couple, Betty (born 1896, née Rosenberg) and Hirsch Jakobsohn (born in Pomerania in 1986), a merchant, lived in Berlin. They emigrated with their three children, Guenther (born 1915), Ursel (born 1919) and Werner (born 1923) to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1937 to escape persecution in Nazi Germany. Guenther and Ursel were trained dressmakers. Ursel married Hans-Gunther Kahn in 1941. She and her parents re-obtained German citizenship in the 1950s.

Acquisition

Baum Gruppe and family papers + 2 videos- 1 box

Donated July 2011

Donor: Rita Kahn

Scope and Content

This collection contains the personal papers of the Jacobsohns, a Jewish family from Berlin who emigrated to Argentina in 1937 to flee Nazi persecution.

Papers including birth and marriage certificates, Ursel Jacobsohn's work references and apprenticeship deed; notice of emigration of the residents' registration office; Familienstammbuch; passports and identity cards; family photographs; correspondence with friends and family received after their emigration. Also included are papers, correspondence and interviews with Ursel Jacobsohn regarding  the Jewish resistance group led by Herbert Baum 

Also contains an interview with the donor in which she describes her father's origins in Augsburg and ; her mother's involvement with the Herbert Baum Gruppe and the fate of other members.

System of Arrangement

Arranged chronologically and by subject.

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Related Units of Description

  • For the story of Ruth Paradies, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor entitled 'Ruth - Entre Auschwitz y el Olimpo' by Claudia Rafael see published material

Subjects

Places

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.