Beate and Ernest Oppenheimer family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn43213
• English
• folders 3
• Updated 7 months ago

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 ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn43214
• English
• overall: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Star of David badge that belonged to Beate Ada or Ernest Oppenheimer. Beate and Ernest emigrated separately from Germany to the United States in 1938-1939. The badge was worn by a family member who stayed in Germany. In September 1941, the Nazi government ordered all Jews over the age of six to wear a Judenstern [Jewish star] badge on their outer clothing at all times. Official persecution of the Jews following Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 made life extremely difficult. Ernest, who lived in Mannheim, was arrested with his father during the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938. They...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn631167
• English
• 2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn631168
• English
• 2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn631169
• English
• 1 sound cassette (60 min.),
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn631170
• English
• 1 sound cassette (60 min.),
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn631171
• English
• 1 sound cassette (60 min.),
• Updated 7 months ago