Ann & Kurt Jacoby collection
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Ann Jacoby
- Kurt Jacoby
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ann and Kurt Jacoby
The collection was doanted to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Ann and Kurt Jacoby.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of documents, photographs and correspondence pertaining to Martha and Eric Jacoby and their sons Gerhard and Kurt who were forced to flee Berlin in late November 1938 and settle in Shanghai, China, where they stayed until 1947. The collection also includes photographs of Herta and Paul Berghausen and their daughter Hannelore (later Ann Jacoby), as well as extended family in pre-war Hamm, Germany before the immediate family fled to the United States in 1938.
People
- Berghausen, Paul.
- Jacoby, Gerhard.
- Jacoby, Martha.
- Jacoby, Kurt.
- Jacoby, Ann.
- Jacoby, Eric.
- Berghausen, Herta.
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Shanghai (China).
- Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.
- China--Emigration and immigration.
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Letters.
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.