Beate and Ernest Oppenheimer family collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Carol Oppenheimer Wolinsky, the daughter of Beate and Ernest Oppenheimer.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a Star of David badge, correspondence, documents, oral testimonies, and photographs relating to the experiences of Beate Ada Oppenheimer in Lauenforde, Germany, and the United States and Ernest Oppenheimer in Mannheim, Germany, and the United States and of members of their extended families who escaped Germany or were imprisoned in concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Genre
- Collection