David Klein document and philately collection

Identifier
irn88295
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.201.1
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Portuguese
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Klein

Gift of David Klein, 2014.

Scope and Content

Postcards, receipts, work permits, and similar documents from multiple concentration camps and displaced persons camps, collected by Klein with explanatory notes for each item. Includes postcards from inmates at Neuengamme, Struthof (Natzweiler) and Gusen; receipts of delivery of packages for inmates at Neuengamme, Gusen, and s'Hertogenbosch; a tobacco ration card from Auschwitz; a work permit form for use in the Riga ghetto; a substitute shekel issued by the Zionist World Organization to an interned refugee at the camp in Mauritius in 1941; post-war documents issued at the Feldafing and Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camps; an identification card form created for use of passengers on the S.S. Exodus, 1947; and philately, including postmarked envelopes, of German stamps, primarily from the Generalgouvernement in Poland, with many of the postmarks commemorating Hitler's birthday, 1941-1943.

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Genre

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