Rosenbaum family collection

Identifier
irn530426
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.365.1
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn530426

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Kurt R. Goldsmith in memory of his father, Kenneth Kurt Rosenbaum Goldsmith, and his grandparents, Frieda and Siegfried Rosenbaum

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Kurt Goldsmith.

Scope and Content

Documents, correspondence, and photographs, including nametag #34 given to Kurt Rosenbaum by the American Friends Service Committee as he sailed from Lisbon on board Portuguese ship SS Mouzinho and arrived in New York on June 21, 1941 as part of the first transport of the US Committee for the Care of European Children. Kurt travelled to Portland, OR and was subsequently adopted by the Goldsmith family. In September 1945, he was drafted into the US Army and sent to Okinawa, Japan. Includes an honorable discharge certificate for the US Army, and copy of German birth certificate issued to Kurt.

People

  • Goldsmith, Kurt Rosenbaum.

Corporate Bodies

  • American Friends Service Committee
  • United States Committee for the Care of European Children

Subjects

  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Child refugees.

Genre

  • Document
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