Walter Gumpert family collection

Identifier: irn71185
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Ruth Gumpert, the daughter of Walter Gumpert.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of an attache case, prayer book, and correspondence relating to the experiences of Walter and Erna Gumpert and their family before and during the Holocaust in Germany and Uruguay, where Walter and Erna immigrated in 1936.

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Gumpert family correspondence
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn85719
- English
- 1936-1941
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Gumpert family correspondence primarily consists of letters from Isidor Gumpert in Berlin to his son and daughter-in-law, Walter and Erna Gumpert, who had immigrated to Uruguay. The collection also includes correspondence from relatives and friends in Berlin and Lübeck, Germany; Labes (now Łobez), Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski), and Schneidemuhl (now Piła), Poland; London, England; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay; Rio de Janiero, Brazil; and New York City.
Small leather case with a detached lid used by a German Jewish refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn85720
- English
- a: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 13.625 inches (34.608 cm) | Depth: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) b: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Small leather attache case with a detached lid used by Walter Gumpert to store letters from relatives, including his father Isidor, still in Germany. As anti-Semitism increased under the Nazi dictatorship, Walter and his wife Erna left for Montevideo, Uruguay, in spring 1936. Isidor was later imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and released on November 29, 1938. Walter received four Red Cross telegrams from Isidor from Berlin. The last was sent on December 23, 1942. Some family members believed that Isidor was killed in Auschwitz in 1943.
Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn86004
- English
- 1931
- Updated 1 year ago
Siddur presumably brought with Walter Gumpert when he left Nazi Germany for Uruguay in 1936.

Walter Gumpert family collection

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Gumpert family correspondence

Small leather case with a detached lid used by a German Jewish refugee

Prayer book