Yvonne Rothschild Redgis and Gertrude Fraenkel (Fränkel) family collection

Identifier
irn77697
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Ed Francell, the nephew of Yvonne Rothschild Klug Redgis and the grandson of Gertude Fraenkel. A passenger list was donated in 2014 and a portrait was donated in 2017 by Mary Francell-Sharfstein.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of pins, an audiotape, documents, memoirs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Yvonne Rothschild Klug and her family before and during the Holocaust in France, until she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, and after the Holocaust when she emigrated to the United States as well as correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gertrude Fraenkel and her family before and during the Holocaust in France and Poland and her postwar emigration to the United States. Collection also includes a portrait of Yvonne Redgis (Rothschild).

Genre

  • Collection
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