John Kaufmann album "Deutschland, England, Australien"

Identifier
irn524384
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.355.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn524384

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • John W. Kaufmann

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of John Kaufmann

The booklet was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by John Kaumann.

Scope and Content

Album entitled "Deutschland, England, Australien" created by John Kaufmann (born Hans Werner Kaufmann), originally of Heidelberg, Germany. The album includes writings, drawings, and photographs chronicling his family and his Holocaust experiences as a German refugee who fled to England in August 1939, was sent to Australia in July 1940 aboard the HMT Dunera as an enemy alien, and interned in the Hay internment camp in New South Wales.

System of Arrangement

This collection is unprocessed.

Corporate Bodies

  • Hay Internment and Prisoner of War Camps
  • Dunera (Ship)

Subjects

  • Jewish refugees--Australia.
  • Jews--Germany--Heidelberg.
  • Hay (N.S.W.)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Australia--Hay (N.S.W.)

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.