Kim family collection

Identifier: irn583343
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn583343

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Betty Kim Rudolph.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of of correspondence, documents, photographs, identification cards, and other original materials pertaining to Max and Regina (née Tenenbaum) Kim and their daughter Betty, as extended family members in Berlin, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. Included in the collection is a letter from Cordell Hull relating to their efforts to get visas and leave Nazi Germany. The collection also includes a Star of David "Juif" badge worn by Regina’s brother Joseph Tenenbaum, who survived the Holocaust in hiding in France.

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Star of David badge with Juif printed in the center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn708841
- English
- overall: Height: 3.190 inches (8.103 cm) | Width: 3.190 inches (8.103 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David "Juif" badge worn by Regina’s brother Joseph Tenenbaum, who survived the Holocaust in hiding in France.
Kim family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn708847
- English
- 1929-1941
- box folder (oversize) 1 2
- Updated 7 months ago
The collection documents the pre-war and wartime lives of the Max and Regina Kim, Polish Jews who lived in Berlin, Germany with their daughter Betty before immigrating to the United States in 1937. Biographical materials consist of clippings, birth certificates, identification papers, and marriage documents. Included are clippings from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Max Kim and Chaim Korngold’s Berliner Zionistische Vereingung identification cards, Max’s Fremdenpass issued in Germany, Regina’s Polish passport, and Max and Regina’s marriage papers. Immigration papers include an affidavit by Ma...

Kim family collection

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Star of David badge with Juif printed in the center

Kim family papers