Gustav and Stefi Geisel collection

Identifier: irn522571
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522571

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Stefi Geisel, the widow of Gustav Geisel.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Stefi Siegel and her family in Germany before and during the Holocaust and of Stefi and Gustav Geisel in the United States during and after the Holocaust.

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Stefi Geisel papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517274
- English
- 1914-1956
- oversize folders box 3 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Stefi Geisel papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographic materials, printed materials, and writings documenting the lives of the Siegel and Geisel families in Germany before the war, Stefi and Gus Geisel’s immigration to the United States, and Walter Siegel’s experiences in the Netherlands before his deportation and death at Bergen Belsen. Biographical materials consist of yahrzeit calendars for Hedwig and Martin Moritz and Siegfried Siegel, death announcements for Hedwig Moritz and Walter Siegel, Gustav Geisel’s 1933 driver’s license, a birth certificate and ...
Leather wallet with flap closure carried by a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany to the US
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517276
- English
- 1938
- overall: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Leather wallet used by 18 year old Stefi Siegel when she emigrated to the United States in September 1938 from Mosbach, Germany. After Hitler came to power in 1933, policies were put in place that persecuted and excluded Jews from German society. In 1938, Stefi's parents, Siegfried and Friedel, managed to send her to the United States; her 15 year old brother, Walter, was sent to the Netherlands to learn a trade and possibly emigrate to Palestine. Her parents emigrated to England in 1939 and would get to the US in 1943. In spring 1940, Germany occupied the Netherlands. Walter eventually was...
Metal identification tag used by Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to the US
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517277
- English
- 1938
- overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.120 inches (2.845 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Identification tag that was owned by Stefi and Gustav Geisel. They had emigrated separately to the United States in 1938 to escape the harsh persecutions of Jews in Nazi Germany. They met in Chicago and married in 1942. Stefi had lived in Mosbach, Germany, with her parents and younger brother, Walter. In 1938, 18 year old Stefi Siegel was sent to live with relatives in Chicago. Her parents left for England that year and arrived in the US in 1943. Walter had been sent to the Netherlands; after Germany occupied the country in 1940, he was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp, then to Ber...
Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518214
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Commemorative book published by the American branch of this Jewish fraternal organization. K-C [Kartell-Convent der Verbindungen Deutscher Studenten Juedischen Glaubens] was a national organization that brought together Jewish student fraternities in Germany. The K-C was outlawed in 1933/34 by the Nazi government, along with other Jewish groups.

Gustav and Stefi Geisel collection

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Stefi Geisel papers

Leather wallet with flap closure carried by a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany to the US

Metal identification tag used by Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to the US

Book