Dorit Isaacsohn family collection

Identifier: irn511563
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511563

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Dorit Isaacsohn.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a hatbox, two trunks, a coin, and photographs relating to the experiences of Dorit Isaacsohn, her parents Gertrud and Julius, and other family members before the Holocaust in Gratz and Berlin, Germany, which Dorit and Gertrud survived in hiding, and after the Holocaust in Berlin and the United States.

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Brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514174
- English
- overall: Height: 13.250 inches (33.655 cm) | Width: 43.125 inches (109.538 cm) | Depth: 22.000 inches (55.88 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Brown burlap covered plywood trunk used by 16 year old Dorit Isaacsohn and her mother Gertrud during their November 1949 emigration from Berlin, Germany, to the United States. By the late 1930’s, Dorit’s parents had lost their livelihood because of the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi regime. Dorit, age 6, was sent to Brussels on a Kindertransport in 1939. Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940 and Dorit was returned to her parents in Berlin in 1941. On February 27, 1943, Dorit and her family had to separate to go into hiding. Dorit stayed with a family friend, a cousin, and her father Julius...
Square, brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514175
- English
- overall: Height: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm) | Width: 30.000 inches (76.2 cm) | Depth: 18.875 inches (47.943 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Brown cloth covered trunk used by 16 year old Dorit Isaacsohn and her mother Gertrud during their November 1949 emigration from Berlin, Germany, to the United States. By the late 1930’s, Dorit’s parents had lost their livelihood because of the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi regime. Dorit, age 6, was sent to Brussels on a Kindertransport in 1939. Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940 and Dorit was returned to her parents in Berlin in 1941. On February 27, 1943, Dorit and her family had to separate to go into hiding. Dorit stayed with a family friend, a cousin, and her father Julius in Berli...
Imitation leather hatbox used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514176
- English
- overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 16.625 inches (42.228 cm) | Depth: 16.375 inches (41.593 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Large, brown imitation leather hatbox used by 16 year old Dorit Isaacsohn and her mother Gertrud during their November 1949 emigration from Berlin, Germany, to the United States. By the late 1930’s, Dorit’s parents had lost their livelihood because of the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi regime. Dorit, age 6, was sent to Brussels on a Kindertransport in 1939. Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940 and Dorit was returned to her parents in Berlin in 1941. On February 27, 1943, Dorit and her family had to separate to go into hiding. Dorit stayed with a family friend, a cousin, and her father Jul...
Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin brought with a young German Jewish refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn540244
- English
- 1943
- overall: | Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
German 10 pfennig coin brought with 16 year old Dorit Isaacsohn and her mother Gertrud during their November 1949 emigration from Berlin, Germany, to the United States. By the late 1930’s, Dorit’s parents had lost their livelihood because of the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi regime. Dorit, age 6, was sent to Brussels on a Kindertransport in 1939. Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940 and Dorit was returned to her parents in Berlin in 1941. On February 27, 1943, Dorit and her family had to separate to go into hiding. Dorit stayed with a family friend, a cousin, and her father Julius in Ber...

Dorit Isaacsohn family collection

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Brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee

Square, brown burlap covered trunk used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee

Imitation leather hatbox used postwar by a young German Jewish refugee

Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin brought with a young German Jewish refugee