Alfred Kurz family collection

Identifier: irn39167
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39167

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Alfred Kurz.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a suitcase, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred Kurz and his parents, Meilach (Emil) and Klara Bieberstein Kurz, and his sister Doriane in Vienna, Austria, The Netherlands, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany before and during the Holocaust, Klara, Alfred, and Doriane's repatriation to the Netherlands after the Holocaust, and Alfred and Doriane's immigration to the United States in 1946.

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Kurz family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn44499
- English
- 1903-1959
- boxes 2
- Updated 1 year ago
The Kurz family papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, immigration papers, business records, and photographs related to the lives of Meilech Kurz and his wife Klara Kurz-Biberstein in Vienna, Austria, and with their children Alfred and Doriane in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Westerbork transit camp, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. The papers include letters Meilech wrote to Klara, birth and marriage certificates, identification cards, government registration papers, immigration papers for Palestine and the United States, papers related to Meilech’s optical fr...
Lightweight brown suitcase carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee child
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn44500
- English
- overall: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 26.000 inches (66.04 cm) | Depth: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Brown cardboard suitcase carried by 9 year old Alfred Kurz when he and his 10 year old sister, Doriane, emigrated to the United States from Sweden in July 1946. After Germany annexed Austria in March 1938, Alfred's parents, Emil and Klara, decided to leave the country with their two children. They went to Amsterdam, Netherlands, where there was a branch of the Kurz family optical frames business. Germany occupied Holland in May 1940 and, by 1942, deportations of Jews to concentration camps were frequent. Emil was arrested and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and killed. Klara and the children...

Alfred Kurz family collection

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Kurz family papers

Lightweight brown suitcase carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee child