David Klipp papers
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- David Klipp
Biographical History
David Klipp was born on July 9, 1905, in Skudy (Skuodas), Lithuania. On January 17, 1940, David was forced out of his apartment and was brought to the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. In spring 1944, the Germans decided to destroy the Ghetto. On August 28, 1944, he was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. He was on the same transport as Chaim Rumkowski and Leon Rosenblat. He was then selected for forced labor and sent to Continental-Gummi-Werke, AG factory, a subcamp of Neuengamme. He worked on the upper floors where rubber was cooked. On November 30, 1944, David was sent to Ahlem, also a subcamp of Neuengamme, to work in an old asphalt mine. Ahlem was being evacuated on April 6, 1945, when the prisoners were liberated by British and American soldiers. David relocated to Hannover, Germany on December. 11, 1945. While there, he met his future wife Estelle. She had been deported from Łódź and survived Auschwitz, Sasel, and Bergen Belsen concentration camps. David emigrated to the United States in 1950.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
David Klipp donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of photographs of commemoration ceremonies in Hannover, Germany, in September 1946; a poem in German; a letter, from the War Crimes Group to David Klipp, that lists the verdicts of the Hannover-Ahlem trial; and David Klipp's testimonies about two camps, Conti and Ahlem.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Klipp, David, 1905-
Corporate Bodies
- Hannover-Stöcken (Continental) (Concentration camp)
- Ahlem (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Memorial rites & ceremonies--Germany--Hannover--1940-1950.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Anniversaries, etc.
- War crime trials--Germany--Hannover.
- Monuments & memorials--Germany--Hannover--1940-1950.
Genre
- Document
- Letters.
- Poetry.
- Photographs.