Ruth Dublon Grossmann collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn86729
• English
• 1926-1938
• folder 1
• Updated 9 months ago

Contains six pre-war photographs of the family of Ruth Dublon Grossman, originally of Wittlich, Germany, and one autograph book, given to Ruth in 1935, prior to her emigration the following year, and filled with inscriptions from her friends and relatives in Germany (in Wittlich and Mertloch), as well as friends and teachers in New York, following her arrival there.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn86737
• English
• overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm)
• Updated 9 months ago

Basket shaped porcelain souvenir dish owned by Rosa Dublon, who in 1936, at the age of 9, left Germany with her mother Erna and five year old sister Herta for the United States. The dish has a painted image of the Marchenbrunnen, or fairy tale fountain, located in Hofgarten park in Dusseldorf. After 1933, the Nazi dictatorship that now governed Germany increasingly persecuted Jewish residents. Rosa's parents Erna and Siegfried divorced in the mid-1930s and Erna and the girls moved to her hometown of Mertloch. Erna's sister Helen Lederer had lived in the United States since at least 1930. Sh...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn88136
• English
• a: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) b: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
• Updated 9 months ago

Small souvenir spoon with a painted coat of arms and fitted box owned by Rosa Dublon, who in 1936, at the age of 9, left Germany with her mother Erna and five year old sister Herta for the United States. After 1933, the Nazi dictatorship that now governed Germany increasingly persecuted Jewish residents. Rosa's parents Erna and Siegfried divorced in the mid-1930s and Erna and the girls moved to her hometown of Mertloch. Erna's sister Helen Lederer had lived in the United States since at least 1930. She sponsored their 1936 emigration to New York to live with her in Queens. Helen also sponso...