Frederic Zeller collection

Identifier: irn583650
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn583650

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Susan Kennedy Zeller, the widow of Frederic Zeller.

Scope and Content

Correspondence; diaries; documents; photographs; interview; of David Borgenicht (one of “The Boys”); manuscript of unfinished chapters of second book: “Friendly Enemy Allien”; negatives; all related to the Zeller family of Berlin: Heinrich Zeller and Fanny Gottesmann Zeller and their two children: Frederic and Lilian. Pocket Watch: which Heinrich Zeller left with a French woman he worked for, when he was in a camp in South of France. Heinrich Zeller left this watch and a suit with the French woman as he was deported to Drancy. The woman located Frederic after the war and returned the watch to him. Frederic Zeller wrote a book: “When Time Ran Out”

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Frederic Zeller papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn594850
- English
- 1922-1990
- box 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Frederic Zeller of Berlin, Germany including his escape from Berlin by train in 1938 and his experiences as a refugee in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Preston, Lancashire, England. Included are illustrated diaries, biographical material, photographs, and correspondence including letters sent by his father Heinrich Zeller from the Gurs and Saint-Cyprien concentration camps in France. Biographical materials includes a family book (Familien Stambuch), birth certificates, diaries, and papers documenting his time in the refugee camp in R...
Pocket watch
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn595141
- English
- overall: Height: 18.110 inches (45.999 cm) | Width: 1.772 inches (4.501 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago

Frederic Zeller collection

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Frederic Zeller papers

Pocket watch