Bruno and Jessie Korn collection

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Black leather infant's ankle boots worn by a German Jewish child
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn85405
- English
- 1939
- a: Height: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) b: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Black leather baby shoes worn by Bruno Korn as a child in Hindenburg, Germany. His mother saved the shoes and gave them to Bruno, who took them with him when he left Germany in 1939. When Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933, 22 year old Bruno, a cloth cutter, was living in Breslau with his parents, Simon and Jetka, and brother Rudolf. In April, Bruno was arrested and accused of making faces at Nazi officials. He was beaten, whipped, and forced to work construction on a future concentration camp for a week. During Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938, Bruno was arrested and sent to...
Bruno and Jetka (Jessie) Korn papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn85406
- English
- 1939-1946
- folders 4
- Updated 7 months ago
Collection of documents, photographs, correspondence, identification cards, and restitution material relating to Bruno Korn (b. 1911 in Breslau) and his wife Jetka Bloch Korn. The couple survived in internment camps in Italy.