Salomon Windmuller collection
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Creator(s)
- Salomon Windmuller
Biographical History
Salomon Windmuller (1886-1954) was born in Beckum, near Dortmund, Germany, to Philipp and Sophie (Reingenheim) Windmuller. He fought in World War II, married Berta (Bertha) Kahn in 1922, and had two sons. He took over the ownership and management of his mother-in-law's dry goods store in Dortmund. He was jailed with his older son for several days following Kristallnacht and forced to sell his store. He placed his older son on a Kindertransport to Holland in December 1938. The family sailed to Cuba on the MS St. Louis in May 1939, was returned to Europe, and disembarked in France, where he was largely interned in French camps. In early 1942 the family traveled from Marseille via Casablanca and Jamaica to the United States, settling in Champaign, Illinois. His father and three older sisters perished in the Holocaust.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ruth H. Windmuller
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Ruth H. Windmuller donated the Salomon Windmuller papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010.
Scope and Content
The Salomon Windmuller papers document Windmuller’s life in Germany, internment in France, and immigration to the United States and consist of a school certificate, World War I commendation, Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten membership card, American immigration quota number, tax office clearance certificate, internment camp release certificate, transit pass, request for leave from the Gurs concentration camp, and an identification card renewal receipt as well as photocopies of a safe passage certificate, of a letter from the American Consulate in Marseille, and of a telegram confirming that the Windmuller family had received their American visas.
System of Arrangement
The Salomon Windmuller papers are arranged as a single series: I. Salomon Windmuller papers, 1902-1941
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Ruth H. Windmuller
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish.
- Jewish refugees--France.
- Concentration camp inmates--France--Gurs.
- Jews--Germany--Beckum (Warendorf)
- Jews--Germany--Dortmund.
- Dortmund (Germany)
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Beckum (Warendorf, Germany)
Genre
- Document