Hugo Ostreich papers

Identifier
irn626422
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2018.630.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn626422

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Paula Berg

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Paula Berg, great niece of Hugo Ostreich.

Scope and Content

Collection belonging to Hugo Ostreich including a 1953 US "Federal Textbook on Citizenship"; a 1956 "New Citizens Reception" program from the Minneapolis Council of Americanization; a Yahrzeit certificate and letter from 1962 for Hugo Ostreich; and photographs that illustrate 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.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Ms. Paula Berg

Subjects

  • United States--Emigration and immigration.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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