Julius Beer papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Julius Beer
Biographical History
Julius Beer was born on June 16, 1922 in Hamburg, Germany to Salka and Robert Beer. He had a sister, Hella Beer. The family moved to Antwerp, Belgium following Kristallnacht. He enlisted in the Belgian army on May 11, 1940. He was taken prisoner after the Battle of Dunkirk and spent time building fortifications before being sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. He was assigned the number 72316. He escaped during a death march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald concentration. He returned to Antwerp, Belgium. He learned his parents and sister, Hella, perished at the Birkenau concentration camp. Julius Beer immigrated to the United States in 1947 and married Anita, an American Jewish woman, in 1953. They had two children, Robert (b. 1954) and Sally (b. 1956).
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Julius Beer donated the Julius Beer papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Scope and Content
Julius Beer papers consists of a 2 page testimony, 1995; a 1 page speech delivered at a synagogue in New Jersey, 1993, regarding Julius Beers Holocaust experiences in Hamburg, Germany and the Auschwitz concentration camp; and an article published in the Washington Jewish Week, September 2, 1993.
System of Arrangement
The Julius Beer papers are arranged in a single series.
People
- Beer, Julius, 1922-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jewish refugees.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Belgium.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Holocaust victims.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document