This small piece of history: the escape from Germany and three years later the successful immigration to the United States

Identifier
irn503623
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.A.0117
  • RG-02.065.01
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503623

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Kurt Lenkway

Biographical History

Kurt Lenkway, born in Germany, fled in 1938 with his Jewish family and immigrated to the United States in 1941.

Archival History

Kurt Lenkway

Acquisition

Dr. Linda Gordon Kuzmack, former Director of the USHMM's Oral History Department received the manuscript copy from Eve Mannes in Jan. 1991 which subsequently obtained a signed donor agreement from Mr. Lenkway. That department passed it on to USHMMA in July 1992.

Scope and Content

Account of the Lenkway family’s life in Cologne, Germany: persecution under the Nazis, escape from Germany in 1938, their odyssey through several European countries before emigrating to the US in 1941.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

People

  • Lenkway, Simon.
  • Lenkway, Kurt.
  • Lankway, Gertrude.
  • Lenkway, Hans.
  • Lenkway, John.

Subjects

Genre

  • Document
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