Elfriede Toch collection

Identifier: irn549476
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn549476

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Cynthia Ermert.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a purse, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Elfriede Toch, originally of Austria, who was one of the fifty children selected and sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to come to the United States in 1939.

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Tapestry cloth purse brought with a young Austrian Jewish refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn549481
- English
- overall: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Purse brought with Elfriede Toch when she left Austria in 1939 for the United States. The purse originally belonged to her mother Adele. Elfriede was one of 50 children whose immigration was sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus of Philadelphia.
Elfriede Toch collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn712097
- English
- 1925-1968
- box oversize folder oversize boxes book enclosures 1 1 2 2 5 , TIFF
- Updated 8 months ago
Photographs, immigration documents, family tree, and other materials related to the childhood and emigration from Nazi-occupied Austria in June 1939 of Elfriede Toch, who was one of the "50 children" selected and sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus of Philadelphia. The collection includes family photographs from the period of her childhood in Austria; immigration and naturalization documents, including her German passport and American immigration documents; and her autograph book, containing inscriptions and autographs from friends and family members in Austria, 1936-1939, and other emig...

Elfriede Toch collection

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Tapestry cloth purse brought with a young Austrian Jewish refugee

Elfriede Toch collection