Ursula Klau family collection

Identifier: irn35130
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Barton Heaps Vanns Spices on behalf of the Estate of Ursula Klau.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of correspondence, documents, prayer books, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ursula Klau and her family in Amsterdam, Netherlands, before and after the Holocaust as well as contemporary photographs from the 1950s and later.

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Ursula Klau papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn618414
- English
- boxes oversize boxes oversize folder 2 3 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Ursula Klau papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, estate, reparations, and restitution records, photographic materials, song lyrics, a calendar, and two prayer books. The records document Ursula Klau’s family; their experiences in Nazi Germany, Nazi-occupied Netherlands, the Westerbork transit camp, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and the so-called “Lost Transport”; and Klau’s liberation and recuperation in Davos, Switzerland, immigration to the United States, and efforts to liquidate and distribute her parents’ estate and to receive restitution and reparations fo...

Ursula Klau family collection

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Ursula Klau papers