Clara Kramer collection

Identifier: irn92317
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994, 1999, and 2011 by Clara Kramer.

Scope and Content

The collection consist of one piece of Łódź ghetto scrip, a wartime diary, an autograph book, biographical materials, and photographs relating to the experiences of Clara Kramer during the Holocaust while in hiding, as well as pre-Holocaust friendships and postwar nursing training and work in displaced persons camps.

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Clara Kramer papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn77708
- English
- folders 10
- Updated 1 year ago
The Clara Kramer papers consist of a wartime diary written in hiding, an autograph book, biographical materials, and photographs documenting Kramer’s experience in hiding during the war as well as pre‐Holocaust friendships and postwar nursing training and work in displaced persons camps and in Israel. Clara Kramer’s diary contains daily accounts of her life in a hidden bunker from April 1943 through their liberation written in notebooks given to her by the family’s protector, Valentin Beck. The diary describes cramped living conditions, meager food supplies, frequent threats of discovery, a...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8893
- English
- overall: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Łódź ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, acquired by Klara Schwarz (later Clara Kramer) at an unknown date; origin is also unknown as she was never a Łódź Ghetto resident. After Nazi Germany occupied Łódź in September 1939, it was renamed Litzmannstadt. When the ghetto was set up, currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. Klara was 12 when her hometown of Zolkiew, Poland, (later Zhovkva, Ukraine) was occupied. In December 1942, Klara, her sister Manja, and her parents went into hiding in a bunker under the home of an ethnic German fami...

Clara Kramer collection

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Clara Kramer papers

Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor