Gertrude Laufer collection

Identifier
irn524357
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.337.1
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1941
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn524357

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Gertrude Laufer

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gertrude Laufer

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Ms. Gertrude Laufer

Scope and Content

The Gertrude Laufer collection include an identification card and a letter. The identification card (Foreigners' Resident Certificate) was issued to Gertrude Brück upon her arrival in Shanghai in 1939 from Vienna. The letter written by Margarethe Braun Mittler (Gertrude Laufer’s aunt) from the ghetto in Opole, Poland to a friend in Vienna, Austria, in November 1941 and describes the poor health and subsequent death of her mother. Margarethe was born in 1901 and is believed to have perished in 1942 in the Belzec or Sobibor killing centers in Poland.

Subjects

  • Shanghai (China)
  • Opole (Poland)

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.