Danielle [Fernande] Halerie Snegg and David Snegg collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn639178
• English
• overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn86811
• English
• box 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The Danielle and David Snegg papers primarily consist of letters from Danielle’s father to Danielle in Paris that were smuggled out of the Blechhammer labor camp as well as love letters exchanged between Danielle and her future husband, American serviceman David Snegg, at the end of the war while Danielle waited for her father to return home. The collection also includes a postcard and letter Danielle’s parents wrote to her from Drancy in the hours before their deportation to Auschwitz in September 1942; one real and one false identification card for Danielle; David’s immunization record; a...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn86812
• English
• overall: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Factory-printed French Star of David badge, owned by the family of Danielle (Fernande) Halerie. In June 1942, German authorities required Jews in France to wear a badge which consisted of a yellow Star of David with a black outline, and the word “Jew” printed inside the star in French, which cost a textile ration coupon. The badge was used to stigmatize and control the Jewish population. Danielle was living in Paris, France, with her Romanian-born parents, Avram and Marguerita, and older brother, David, when the German army invaded France and occupied the city on June 14, 1940. During the G...