Blumenstein family collection

Identifier: irn520489
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was loaned to the Museum from Dec. 14, 1998 to Dec. 14, 1999 by Henry Blumenstein for the exhibition, "The St. Louis." He donated it to the Museum on 14 Nov.2000.

Scope and Content

Consists of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to the experiences of the Blumenstein family in Vienna, Austria, on board the MS St. Louis, in hiding in Holland, and their efforts to flee Nazi-occupied Europe. Includes a photograph of the donor's father in Sosua, Dominican Republic and a photograph taken in a Quaker camp for refugees in Havana, Cuba.

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Henry Blumenstein family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn520490
- English
- 1916-1994
- box 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The Henry Blumenstein family papers consist of wartime and postwar correspondence among members of the Blumenstein family, with other relatives and friends, and with the Dijkstra family; photographs of the Blumenstein and Dijkstra families in Austria, the Netherlands, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic; and subject files including Franz Blumenstein’s date book, Henry Blumenstein’s identification papers, and emigration and immigration papers. Correspondence primarily consists of letters, postcards, and telegrams between Franz and Elsa Blumenstein and, after the war, between Franz and Henry Blu...
Wallet
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn520491
- English
- 1946
- overall: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago

Blumenstein family collection

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Henry Blumenstein family papers

Wallet