Herbert Hugo Langshur collection
Extent and Medium
box
oversize folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eric Langshur
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Eric Langshur.
Scope and Content
Documents, photographs, correspondence and clippings documenting the pre-war lives of Erna and Sigmund Langschur and their son Herbert Hugo Langschur (donor's father). Erna (b. in Krnov [Jaegerndorf] in 1890) married Dr. Siegmund Langshur (b. Pobezovice in 1884), both Czech and living in Olomouc. Collection includes birth certificates; report cards for Siegmund and Erna; a birthdate book; map; diploma and family tree book; journal of writings; and correspondence and photographs from pre-war lives of Erna and Siegmund who, after sending Herbert (born 1921] to United Kingdom, were then deported to Theresienstadt and on to Baranowicze in present-day Belarus, where they were killed in 1942.
Subjects
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--England.
Genre
- Birth certificates.
- Letters.
- Report cards.
- Diplomas.
- Photographs.
- Document
- Genealogical tables.