Hugo Ostreich collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Paula Berg, the great niece of Hugo Ostreich.
Scope and Content
Collection belonging to Hugo Ostreich including wooden box purchased in Shanghai, China, Jewish prayer books, textbook for citizenship, tallis and tallis bag, photographs and documents that illustrates donor's [Paula Berg] great uncle's experiences fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany in 1939 with his younger brother Alfred, leaving behind Hugo's wife, Erna Baer and extended relatives. Hugo and Alfred survived WWII in Shanghai, immigrating to the United States in the late 1940s.
Genre
- Collection