Erna and Otto Stein family collection

Identifier: irn85760
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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The Otto and Erna Stein family collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Lotte and David Zinner, the daughter and grandson of Erna and Otto Stein.

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The Otto and Erna Stein family collection includes a German Cross of Honor for World War I Combatants, biographical materials and correspondence documenting the Stein family, their immigration to the United States in 1938, and their relatives’ experiences under Nazi rule in Neustadt an der Haardt, Nieder-Olm, Wiesbaden, and Mannheim.

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Otto and Erna Stein family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502435
- English
- 1889-2000
- box 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The Otto and Erna Stein family papers include biographical materials and correspondence documenting the Stein family, their immigration to the United States in 1938, and their relatives’ experiences under Nazi rule in Neustadt an der Haardt, Nieder-Olm, Wiesbaden, and Mannheim. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, and death certificates, death notices, International Tracing Service forms, Yad Vashem “Hall of Names” forms, passports, student and apprenticeship record, military papers, records from Otto Stein’s time as a Prisoner of War in England during World War I, identification...
Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn85761
- English
- 1914-1918
- Updated 7 months ago
Das Ehrenkreuz des Weltkriegs 1914 1918 [The Honor Cross of World War 1914/1918) awarded for serving in combat in the German Army during the First World War. The award was established by President Paul von Hindenburg, on July 13, 1934. This was the first official WWI service medal of the Third Reich, often referred to by an unofficial name, Hindenburg Cross. Hindenburg, Field Marshal of German forces during WWI, appointed Hitler as Chancellor in January 1933, and soon a Nazi dictatorship ruled the country.

Erna and Otto Stein family collection

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Otto and Erna Stein family papers

Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier