Haas family collection

Identifier: irn560269
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn560269

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 and 2014 by Ernie Haas. An accretion was added to the collection in 2017 by Myrna Haas, widow of Ernie Haas.

Scope and Content

Photographs and letter illustrating the experiences of the Haas family surrounding the Holocaust: pre-war images of Semi Haas and his wife Frieda Steinberger Haas and their children Walter, Ilse and Ernst (donor) in Neumarkt, Germany and after 1938 in Fürth. Also included are pre-war photographs of extended family members and post-war photographs of Ernst in Germany after his liberation from Riga and Stutthof concentration camps. Letter to Walter in Brooklyn, New York in 1941 from Semi, Frieda, Ernst and Ilse and Fürth, Germany. Frieda, Semi and Ilse did not survive. Post-war documents issued to Ernst Haas; Atlas given to Ernst Haas on the occasion of his 15th birthday. Bag sent to Ernie Haas in the Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga from his mother Frieda Steinberger Haas while she was in the Strassdenhof concentration camp, a sub-camp of Kaiserwald. Although they did not have contact and not able to see each other, Frieda was able to have this delivered to Ernie via another prisoner who was with a labor Kommando in Strassdenhof. In the little bag were two pieces of bread from her daily rations.

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Cloth bag
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn562178
- English
- overall: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Bag sent to Ernie Haas in the Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga from his mother Frieda Steinberger Haas while she was in the Strassdenhof concentration camp, a sub-camp of Kaiserwald. Although they did not have contact and not able to see each other, Frieda was able to have this delivered to Ernie via another prisoner who was with a labor Kommando in Strassdenhof. In the little bag were two pieces of bread from her daily rations.
Ernie Haas papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn73435
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 8 months ago
Photographs and letter documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Haas family. Photographs include pre-war depictions of Semi Haas and his wife Frieda Steinberger Haas and their children Walter, Ilse, and Ernst in Neumarkt, Germany and after 1938 in Fürth. Also included are pre-war photographs of extended family members and post-war photographs of Ernst in Germany after his liberation from Riga and Stutthof concentration camps. Letter to Walter in Brooklyn, New York in 1941 from Semi, Frieda, Ernst and Ilse and Fürth, Germany. Frieda, Semi and Ilse did not survive.

Haas family collection

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Cloth bag

Ernie Haas papers