Harry Reis collection
Extent and Medium
folders
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Harry Reis donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives at the Tribute to Survivors on Nov. 2, 2003. He also loaned photographs which were copied and returned to him in Dec. 2003. The copies are located on the Photo Archives database.
Scope and Content
Consists of correspondence from Hans Reis' parents, who were prisoners in the Gurs concentration camp in France from 1940-1942 to their son and to various other family members. Mr. Reis was part of a Kindertransport to England in 1939, but his parents, who remained in Konigshofen, were deported to Gurs in 1940 and then on to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished.
Genre
- Document
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.