Kormes family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn724619
• English
• overall: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 25.500 inches (64.77 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Child's red dress worn by the donor's sister Ava (or Eva) Kormes Becker on the SS Patria. She survived its bombing with her parents, Karl and Martha Kormes, in 1940 before the family's detainment in the Atlit detainee camp.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn725220
• English
• Updated 7 months ago

Prewar German prayer book which belonged to the Kormes family, who survived the Patria bombing and were detained in the Atlit (or Athlit) detainee camp before their immigration to the US in 1946.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn725225
• English
• overall: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Israeli flag brought with Karl Kormes when he immigrated to the United States around 1946 after he and his family lived in Tel Aviv following the war.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn737153
• English
• 1940-1946
• folders oversize box 2 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Comprised of materials such as immigration papers, family photographs, and correspondence documenting the donor's sister, Ava (b. 1940), and parents', Karl Kormes (b. 1918) and his first wife Martha (b.1922), experiences in prewar Germany, surviving the Patria bombing, their detainment in the Atlit (or Athlit) detainee camp, living in Tel Aviv, and their immigration to the US in 1946. Also included are Jewish Journal newspaper clippings.