Susan Camis papers
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Susan Camis
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Susan Camis
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Susan Camis in 2005.
Scope and Content
The papers consist of three photographs, two letters, a telegram, and two certificates documenting the Kollmann family during the Holocaust. Includes a letter and photograph sent to Susan Camis from Anna and Ernst Kollmann, Susan Camis's great aunt and uncle, who fled to Shanghai, China, from Vienna, Austria, in 1939; a telegram from Anna and Ernst Kollmann prior to their immigration to the United States in 1949; a photograph of Herta Kollmann, Susan's great aunt, with her mother; a photograph of her with her husband, Walter, Susan's maternal grandmother's brother; a birth certificate issued to her in Vienna 1931; and their marriage certificate from Vienna in 1938; and a Red Cross letter documenting the fate of Heinrich (Joachim) and Marie Kollmann, Susan's great-grandparents, dated 1980. Herta and Walter Kollman fled Austria in 1938, living in Trinidad before immigrating to the United States.
People
- Kollmann, Heinrich.
- Kollmann, Herta.
- Kollmann, Marie.
- Kollmann, Ernst.
- Kollmann, Walter.
- Kollmann, Anna.
Subjects
- Austria--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--China--Shanghai.
- Refugees, Jewish--China--Shanghai.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Certificates.
- Telegrams.
- Letters.