Beate and Ernest Oppenheimer papers
Extent and Medium
folders
3
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Carol Oppenheimer Wolinsky
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Carol Oppenheimer Wolinsky.
Scope and Content
Documents, artifacts, photos and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Beate Ada Oppenheimer neé Oppenheimer and husband Ernest Oppenheimer both German Jews who fled Nazi-occupation and immigrated to the United States prior to their meeting and marriage. Included in the collection are objects that also document the extended families’ experiences, such as letters from Ernst’s father and step-mother who both perished as well as documentation of Ada’s parents who were interned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Czechoslovakia and released to Switzerland before the end of World War II.
Corporate Bodies
- St. Louis (Ship)
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Brazil--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Letters.
- Document
- Photographs.