Dienemann family collection
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jonathan Ertman This gift is made in memory of his mother Liselotte Lilo Dienemann Ertman and her parents George and Emma Dienemann.
Acquired and saved by Lilo Dienemann Ertman (donor's mother) during WWII. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Jonathan Ertman.
Scope and Content
Photo album and loose photographs depicting the Dienemann family from Breslau and Waldenburg, Germany, sent to Lilo Dienemann (donor's mother) who left Germany on a Kindertransport to Sweden; photographs showing Lilo in Sweden. Includes a partial envelope in which the photo album was sent to Sweden. Documents include original and copies of birth certificate for George Dienemann (donor's maternal grandfather) (b. Boguszyce on 10/29/1895); birth certificate of Liselotte Dienemann (b. 10/3/1929 in Breslau); marriage certificate of George and Emma Johnsan Dieneman, married on 3/18/1926 in Waldenburg, Germany; letter written by a friend of the Dienemann family in 1947; Certificate of Naturalization issued to Lilo Ertman on February 12, 1952
Subjects
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Sweden.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Certificates.
- Document
- Photo albums.