Ahnenpass

Identifier
irn39332
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.476.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39332

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Alfred Haiblen

Issued to Karl Haiblen (donor's father) in October 1938, Tubingen, Germany. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Alfred Haiblen c/o his daughter Barbara Rugo.

Scope and Content

Contains an "Ahnenpass" issued to Karl Haiblen (donor's father) that documents his family ancestry to prove that he was of "pure Aryan blood." Dated October 6th, 1938; Tübingen, Germany.

System of Arrangement

Karl Haiblen married Lotte Sachs (donor’s mother) and they lived in Koeln with their son Hans Dieter (donor). Lotte and her mother fled Nazi Germany to England in January 1939. Hans Dieter also went to England at the same time where he went to school in January 1940 and where he was then interned on May 12, 1940 in the Huyton internment camp near Liverpool before being shipped to Canada where he was interned in multiple camps before being released on January 10, 1942 in Quebec.

Genre

  • Document
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