Baer family collection

Identifier: irn42563
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn42563

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 and 2014 by John L. Baer, the son of Berthold Baer.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of two gripper pliers, correspondence, documents, photographs, and a manuscript relating to the experiences of Berthold Baer, his family, and extended family in Germany and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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C. Seelbach Co. gripper pliers brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn43727
- English
- overall: Height: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Large pair of C Seelbach Co. gripper pliers brought to the United States on October 3, 1940, by Berthold Baer, his wife Hilde, and son Hans (later Larry) from Frankfurt, Germany, via the Netherlands and England. Berthold was a bank official in Frankfurt when Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933. By 1938 the German authorities had passed many anti-Semitic laws that isolated and restricted the everyday lives of the Jews. Berthold was legally barred from working and during Kristallnacht on November 9, he was arrested. On November 13 he was imprisoned for two weeks in Buchen...
Gripper pliers brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn43728
- English
- overall: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Small pair of gripper pliers brought to the United States on October 3, 1940, by Berthold Baer, his wife Hilde, and son Hans (later Larry) from Frankfurt, Germany via the Netherlands and England. Berthold was a bank official in Frankfurt when Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933. By 1938 the German authorities had passed many anti-Semitic laws that isolated and restricted the everyday lives of the Jews. Berthold was legally barred from working and during Kristallnacht on November 9, he was arrested. On November 13 he was imprisoned for two weeks in Buchenwald concentrati...
Berthold Baer papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn96319
- English
- box folder 1 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Documents, correspondence, photographs and album illustrating the experiences of Berthold and Hilde Baer and their son Hans Lothar in Germany surrounding WWII in Germany. Included are military documents for Berthold's WWI service, photographs and albums of pre-war Germany and documents and correspondence surrounding their immigration to the United States via London, England. Documents, photographs and correspondence also illustrate Werner Simon (Hilde's brother) and his wife Eva and their son Daniel, all of whom were killed and information concerning Clara Simon (Werner and Hilde's mother) ...

Baer family collection

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C. Seelbach Co. gripper pliers brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee

Gripper pliers brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee

Berthold Baer papers