Jeannette Hahlo papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Jeanette Hahlo
Biographical History
Jeannette "Jet" Hahlo (circa 1886-1988) was born in New York to Henriette (b. circa 1863) and her husband and had one sister, Sylvia (b. circa 1888). Prior to the war Jet worked as a translator at the Metropolitan Opera House. Immediately following the war Jet served as an interpreter for the U.S government during the Nuremberg trials.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Douglas and Mitchell Cohn
Funding Note: The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded Save Their Stories campaign.
The Jeanette Hahlo papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Mitchell and Douglas Cohn, sons of Robert A. Cohn. Robert was the son of Jeannette's cousin.
Scope and Content
The collection includes a post-war letter and diary kept by Jeannette "Jet" Hahlo during her time in Germany where she served as an interpreter with the United States government during the Nuremberg trials. The diary consists of transcribed correspondence written by Jet to her sister, Sylvia Hahlo.
People
- Hahlo, Jeanette.
Subjects
- War crime trials--Germany--Nuremberg.
Genre
- Document
- Diaries.
- Correspondence.