Herbert Karliner family collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Herbert Karliner.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of correspondence and prayer books relating to the experiences of Herbert Karliner and his family who fled Germany on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis, were separated after their return to France, when Herbert and his brother Walter were placed in a children's home and his parents, Martha and Josef, and two sister, Ilse and Ruth, were deported and killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Genre
- Collection
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