Werner and Inge Berg Katzenstein family collection

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Werner Katzenstein postcards
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn88441
- English
- 1904-1948
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The Werner Katzenstein postcards include one postcard addressed to Katzenstein while he lived in the Netherlands; postcards addressed to unrelated people including Hans Bornemann, Robert Heinemann, Wilhelm Schaefer, and others; and blank postcards documenting the 1936 Olympics, bear Deutsches Reich stamps and Nazi imagery, and one advertising "Der ewige Jude."
Decorative pin with engraved initials CB made in Kenya for a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn88452
- English
- overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Handcrafted pin with the initials CB made for Clara Davids Berg, when the extended Berg family was living in Kenya after fleeing Cologne, Germany, in May/June 1939. The family had lived in nearby Lechenich for generations, but under the Nazi dictatorship, which took power in 1933, Jews were made outcasts from German society. The Berg's were warned by neighbors to leave their home prior to the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938. Their houses were vandalized and the family decided to leave Germany. They wanted to stay together as a family and a friend got them permits for British rul...