Erich Kupferberg family collection

Identifier: irn49896
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn49896

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Erich Kupferberg.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of dried flowers and documents relating to the experiences of Erich Kupferberg and his parents, Baruch and Hedwig Kupferberg, before the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, when Erich was sent to Great Britain with the Kindertransport and Baruch and Hedwig left for Shanghai, China, and after the war when Erich served in the US military and Baruch and Hedwig immigrated to Israel, Austria, and then the United States.

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Kupferberg family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn85410
- English
- folders oversize folder 3 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Documents relating to the Kupferberg family who fled Austria to Shanghai and the United Kingdom, Palestine, and the United States. Includes correspondence, travel and identification documents, military service documents (from World War I), birth certificates, school records, death certificate, and contracts, related to family of Herman and Hedwig (Baruch) Kupferberg.
Two dried flower bundles preserved by an Austrian Jewish Kindertransport refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn85411
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Dried flowers saved in an envelope by Erich Kupferberg, who at age seven was sent by his parents Baruch and Hedwig from Vienna to London in early 1939 on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany on March 12, 1938, anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to ostracize the Jewish population. The Kristallnacht pogrom that November was especially brutal in Vienna. Most synagogues were destroyed and Jewish shops and homes were vandalized. Great Britain agreed to admit refugee children under 17 from Germany and German annexed territories and aid societies c...

Erich Kupferberg family collection

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Kupferberg family papers

Two dried flower bundles preserved by an Austrian Jewish Kindertransport refugee