Frieda Rosenzweig Jankner family collection

Identifier: irn76136
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 Larry and Nancy Jankner, the son and daughter-in-law of Frieda Jankner, and Muriel and David Benjamin and Karen and Robert Falk, the nieces and nephews-in-law of Frieda Jankner.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a clothes hanger, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Frieda Rosenzweig Jankner, who immigrated to the United States in 1911, and her family members who lived in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust.

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Frieda Rosenzweig family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn85749
- English
- folders 3
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains photographs and correspondence relating to and illustrating the experinces of Frieda Rosenzweig and her family. Frieda was originally from Mikulince, Poland, immigrated to the USA and received correspondence from cousins and siblings who remained in Europe through WWII.
Wooden hanger from prewar Vienna
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn85750
- English
- overall: Height: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Width: 17.875 inches (45.403 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Wooden coat hanger from Moderne Bekleidung, Hermann Blauner’s clothing store in Vienna, Austria. Hermann’s wife Klara had a cousin, Frieda Jankner, who visited the family in 1933 and took the hanger back to the United States. Nazi Germany annexed Austria in March 1938. Hermann was arrested during Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938. He was sent to Dachau concentration camp, where he died in fall 1939. Hermann and Klara’s son Kurt was deported to Maly Trostenets killing site in September 1942. Klara is presumed to have perished.

Frieda Rosenzweig Jankner family collection

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Frieda Rosenzweig family papers

Wooden hanger from prewar Vienna