Henry F. Kahn collection

Identifier: irn103468
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990, 1991, and 1992 by Henry F. Kahn.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of an MS St Louis demitasse spoon, envelopes, letters, postcards, and philatelic materials collected between approximately 1945 and 1985 by Henry F. Kahn, who fled Nazi Germany in January 1939 for the United States.

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Gilt-plated demitasse spoon embossed with the MS St Louis
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn6383
- English
- overall: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Gilded demitasse spoon with an engraved ship image and enamel company logo used prewar on the MS St. Louis. This German ocean liner has become a symbol of the world's, and especially the United States, indifference to the fate of Jews in a Europe dominated by Nazi Germany. On May 13, 1939, the ship left Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba, with 937 passengers, nearly all Jews fleeing Germany. In Havana, only 28 people were allowed to disembark. For a week, the ship remained in port, amid desperate negotiations with Cuban and US authorities. On June 2, it was forced to leave. It drifted for 5...
Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn77424
- English
- boxes oversize folder 2 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail primarily consists of envelopes, letters, postcards, and philatelic materials Kahn collected between approximately 1945 and 1985. The materials document mail systems in and around Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps and, by extension, the survivors and victims who passed through them or perished in them. Kahn arranged the materials in three annotated scrapbooks, providing context and history for the ghettos, camps, and mail systems. Most of the materials date from the 1930s and 1940s while the reproductions and commentary date fro...

Henry F. Kahn collection

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Gilt-plated demitasse spoon embossed with the MS St Louis

Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail