Hilert family collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Hilert family
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Michael Hilert
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Michael Hilert.
Scope and Content
The Hilert family collection consists of documents, correspondence, and identification cards pertaining to the Hilert family and their postwar time experience in the Stuttgart West displaced persons camp (DP camp) in Germany and their immigration to the United States. The collection contains an affidavit from Avrom Hiller and Senator Harry Byrd and smallpox vaccination certificates. The documents pertain to Rabbi Samuel Hilert, Rose (Rosa, Raizel) Gutkind Hilert, and their son, Moses Baruch Hilert (Michael, Mike).
System of Arrangement
The Hilert family collection is arranged in a single series.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mr. Michael Hilert
People
- Hilert, Rose, 1920-2003.
- Hiller, Avrom.
- Bryd, Harry, 1887-1966.
- Hilert, Samuel.
- Barish, Louis.
- Hilert, Moses Baruch.
Corporate Bodies
- Stuttgart (Displaced persons camp)
- United Service for New Americans
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Vaccination.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Refugees.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Holocaust survivors.
- Displaced persons--Europe.
- Jewish refugees.
Genre
- Document
- Certificates.
- Letters.
- Identification cards.
- Envelopes.
- Correspondence.