Marion Kaufman Cassirer family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47094
• English
• 1973
• 3 sound cassettes, analog
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn49571
• English
• box 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains identity documents, restitution paperwork, newspaper clippings, and other materials concerning Marion Kaufman (now Marion Cassirer) and her mother, Lina Kaufman, who hid in the Netherlands during the Holocaust with the help of a false identity papers provided by a non-Jewish friend, Emmy Erdmann. Marion was in several different hiding situations, including with the Edgar family, at a convent, with the Beelen family in Overasselt posing as one of the family's children, and with a family of Roma, Lina hid with the Wesselius family in Oude Wetering and lost contact with Marion for a f...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn49574
• English
• 1949
• a: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm) | Depth: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Yellow suitcase with green trim and a small key used by 12 year old Marion Kaufmann when she and her mother emigrated to the United States from Holland in February 1949. Marion's parents, Lina and Walter, owned an electrical repair shop in Berlin that was destroyed during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. They worked in a Jewish daycare center until 1941, when the orphans were deported and the center closed. Walter made preparations for the family to escape, but was arrested in October 1942. Six year old Marion and her mother Lina fled to the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, Dr. Max Knapp of th...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn49575
• English
• 1936
• Updated 7 months ago

Psalm book given to Lina Kaufmann with an inscription by the Wesselius family who provide a hiding place for her from September 1943-May 1945 in Holland. Marion's parents, Lina and Walter, owned an electrical repair shop in Berlin that was destroyed during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. They worked in a Jewish daycare center until 1941, when the orphans were deported and the center closed. Walter made preparations for the family to escape, but was arrested in October 1942. Six year old Marion and her mother Lina fled to the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, Dr. Max Knapp of the Dutch undergro...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513944
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains Dutch newspaper clippings from Mar./April 1945: 28 Maart 1945, document entitled "Trouw"; newspaper clipping 13 April 1945 announcing the death of President Roosevelt and showing a map of the Allied march into Berlin, Germany; and a flyer imploring for all citizens to aid the Allied effort with any means necessary.