Ernie Haas papers

Identifier
irn73435
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.420.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn73435

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ernest Haas

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 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.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Mr. Ernie Haas

Subjects

  • Fürth (Germany)
  • Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz (Germany)

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.

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