Knopf family collection
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jackie Fishman
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Jackie Fishman donated the Knopf family collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2010. Jackie Fishman is the granddaughter of Oswald and Frieda Knopf.
Scope and Content
The Knopf family collection consists of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Oswald, Frieda, and Jeanette Knopf, originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes Oswald and Frieda Knopf's pre-war papers, including the marriage certificate for Frieda's parents, Jeanette Winter and Solomon Wolfer (1901), Oswald's pre-World War I military papers, schooling papers, their ketubah, and a copy of their Viennese marriage certificate. Also includes immigration paperwork, Oswald and Frieda Knopf's 1938-1939 Reisepasses, a health certification for boat travel, a 1939 immigration card for their daughter, Jeanette Knopf, naturalization papers, and correspondence regarding alien registration.
System of Arrangement
The Knopf family collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Knopf, Frieda, 1887-
- Knopf, Jeanette, 1925-
- Knopf, Oswald, 1888-
Subjects
- Jews--Austria--Vienna--History.
- Vienna (Austria)--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Austria.
- Vienna (Austria)
Genre
- Certificates.
- Document
- Naturalization records.
- Identification documents.
- Passports.