Werner Gumprecht letter
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Werner Gumprecht's daughter, Marion Portman, and her husband, Sheldon, donated the letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005.
Scope and Content
The 16-page, typewritten letter was written by Werner Gumprecht in Seville, Spain, and details the beginning of his family's experiences during their immigration from Hamburg, Germany, to the United States in 1941. The Gumprechts left Germany on July 21, 1941, and arrived in N.Y. on September 12, 1941. Their relatives who remained in Germany were deported between October and December 1941 and never heard from again.
People
- Gumprecht family.
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945.
Genre
- Document
- Letters.