Daisy Herrmann Kummer family papers

Identifier
irn47294
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.333.1
Dates
1 Jan 1893 - 31 Dec 1963, 1 Jan 1930 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Czech
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47294

Extent and Medium

folders

6

Creator(s)

  • Daisy H. Kummer

Biographical History

Daisy Kummer (1926-1972) was born Daisy Yvonne Herrmann on February 12, 1926 in Vienna, Austria to lawyer Adolf Herrmann (1880-1947) and his wife Alice (nee Gerber, 1890-1970). Adolf Herrmann was born in Halenkov, Czech Republic, and Alice Herrmann was born in Zolochiv, Ukraine. Daisy had one brother, John Erwin Herrmann (Hans, 1922-2003). John immigrated to the United States aboard the SS Hansa in July 1938, a few months after the German annexation of Austria. Adolf and Alice joined him in the United States in November 1939, sailing from Rotterdam aboard the SS Rotterdam. Daisy was sent to France in spring 1939, where she found refuge at the children’s home at the Chateau de la Guette, a mansion owned by Edouard and Germaine de Rothschild near Paris. La Guette was evacuated in May 1940 to the Hotel des Anglais in the village of La Bourboule. Daisy finally joined her family in the United States in June 1941, sailing aboard the SS Mouzinho from Lisbon. She married Philip Kummer in New York in 1948.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Peter Kummer

Peter Kummer donated the Daisy Herrmann Kummer family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.

Scope and Content

The Daisy Herrmann Kummer family papers document the Herrmann family of Vienna, Daisy’s years as a refugee in France, and the family’s immigration to the United States. Documents include birth, marriage, residence, baptism, naturalization, and death certificates; identification and military papers; letters from the American Committee of the OSE and the Baronness Germaine de Rothschilde; and a handwritten scouting manual Daisy kept while a member of the Éclaireuses éclaireurs israélites de France (E.I.F.) prior to leaving France.

System of Arrangement

The Daisy Herrmann Kummer family papers are arranged by family member.

Corporate Bodies

  • Éclaireuses et éclaireurs unionistes de France

Subjects

  • Jewish refugees--New York (State)--New York.
  • Child refugees.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.