Otto and Hilde Egener collection

Identifier
irn37051
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.188
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Chinese
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn37051

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gerda Shay

Gerda Shay donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 29, 2009. She was Hilde's cousin.

Scope and Content

Consists of documentation related to the lives of Otto and Hilde Rahmer Egener, German-Jewish refugees who escaped to Shanghai in 1939. Includes Otto Egener's Reisepass, marriage and immunization documentation, and a letter sent to Otto in 1942 from a friend just prior to his deportation to a concentration camp.

Genre

  • Document
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