Kessler family collection
Acquisition
THe collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by John Otto Kessler.
Scope and Content
Collection of documents, photographs, artifacts and film illustrating the experiences of Alice and Jakob Kessler and their son, Hans Otto, who was born in Vienna, Austria and raised in Baden, Austria. Their experiences fleeing to the United Kingdom in 1939 and then immigrating to the United States in the early 1940s, as well as the experiences of the extended family is also documented in the collection.
Genre
- Collection