Jella Karlsruher and Albrecht Eisenmann families papers
Extent and Medium
box
oversize box
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Audrey Eisenmann and Geoffrey Eisenmann
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Audrey and Geoffrey Eisenmann.
Scope and Content
Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, photo albums and a cookbook, relating to three families: the Karlsruher and Schweizer families of Mannheim, Germany, and Eisenmann family of Noerdlingen, Germany. Jella Furth Karlsruher with her younger daughter Ruth (donors' maternal grandmother and mother) were able to leave Germany in August 1940 via USSR and Japan to the United States. Irene Schweizer (Jella's oldest daughter) left for England in 1939 with her husband and son. Albrecht Al Eisenmann (donors' father) immigrated to the US in 1938, his mother Ida was murdered in 1942 in Piaski.
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Letters.
- Photographs.
- Cookbook.
- Document