Edith Beer collection

Identifier
irn73116
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.492.1
Dates
1 Jan 1928 - 31 Dec 1962
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Czech
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

oversize box

2

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Edith Borger Beer

Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.

Received by Edith Borger Beer during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Edith Borger Beer.

Scope and Content

Photographs (99) of the Borger family in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia: Alfred Borger, Hermina Geduldig Borger and their children Karel (b. 1925) and Edith (b. 1929). In July 1939 Karel and Edith were sent to the UK by their parents on the Kindertransport organized by Sir Nicholas Winton. Both parents and Hermina's mother Ruzena Geduldig were deported to Theresienstadt on September 30, 1942; Alfred and Hermina Borger were deported to Treblinka death camp on October 10, 1942. Edith returned to Czechoslovakia in 1946 and immigrated to Israel. She married Pavel Zvi Beer (b. 1923) who survived Auschwitz and Blechhammer; School diplomas: issued to Pavel Beer from the Jewish Gymnasium in Brno, 1935-1941, are also included in this collection.

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