Kessler family collection

Identifier
irn562697
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

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

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.