Perla Zinn Engel papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rene Axelrod and Sandra Stevermar
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Sandra Stevermar and Rene Axelrod.
Scope and Content
Photographs (7) of Perla Zinn, dating from1943-1946, including two photographs taken in Ottenhofen, Germany, in 1943, several taken in various locations in Germany, post-liberation, including Erlangen, Deggendorf, and Hochland, 1945-1946, and a photo of Mozes Zeiger, inscribed to her, dated 1946, as well as a photograph taken in a displaced persons camp, likely Foehrenwald, undated. Also includes two identification cards for Zinn, using the false name of Zofia Molinska, one issued in Poland in 1939 and the other issues at the Bleidorn displaced persons camp in Germany, 1945. Collection also contains a certificate of identification in lieu of a passport, issued by the United States Consulate in Munich, under Zinn's actual name, 1946.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Sandra Stevermar
Subjects
- Ansbach (Displaced persons camp)
- Jewish refugees--Germany--Franconia.
Genre
- Document
- Identification cards.