Borge and Tove Siebern scrapbooks
Extent and Medium
5 scrapbooks,
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of S. Dell Scott and family
The scrapbooks were assembled by Borge and Tove Siebern between 1964 and 1973. When Tove Siebern died, she left the scrapbooks in the posession of Dell and Ruth Scott in order for them to find an appropriate home for the scrapbooks. Ruth Scott sent the scrapbooks to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March, 2011.
Scope and Content
Consists of five scrapbooks assembled while Bjorn Siebern, former Danish policeman and member of the resistance, and his wife, sometime between 1964 and 1973. They contain a combination of wartime photographs, documents, and three-dimensional objects documenting all aspects of the German occupation of Denmark. Some documents relate directly to Mr. Siebern's work, including ID cards, false IDs and forgery stamps. He assumed multiple identities during the war. There are also leaflets dropped over Denmark, Nazi propaganda and anti-Nazi cartoons. The photos include photos of German officials, Danish collaborators and demonstrations. Every page is fully annotated in English.
People
- Siebern, Bjorn.
Subjects
- Denmark.
- Anti-Nazi movement--Denmark.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Scrapbooks.