Ruth Haas Sadovnik collection

Identifier
irn42565
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.498.1
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1966
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

5

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Ruth Haas Sadovnik (1927-2007) was born in 1927 in Berlin, Germany to Gustav and Martha Haas. She had an older sister, Jeannette Haas. On July 3, 1939, Ruth was sent on a Kindertransport to England; she was eleven and a half years old. Ruth was sent to Hull, England and later the Yorkshire countryside, where she learned English and attended school. Her parents and sister were able to escape Nazi Germany in 1941 and settled in Brooklyn, New York. Ruth remained in England until 1945 when she immigrated to the United States and was reunited with her family in New York. Ruth Haas Sadovnik died in 2007.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Alan Sadovnik

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Alan Sadovnik donated the Ruth Haas Sadovnik collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011. Alan Sadovnik is the son of Ruth Haas Sadovnik.

Scope and Content

The Ruth Haas Sadovnik collection consists of identification documents, photographs, naturalization documents, financial documents, and a childhood memoir relating to the experiences of Ruth Haas Sadovnik who was sent from Berlin, Germany to England on a KThe Ruth Haas Sadovnik collection consists of identification documents, photographs, naturalization documents, financial documents, and a childhood memoir entitled “Twice a Refugee” relating to the experiences of Ruth Haas Sadovnik who was sent from Berlin, Germany to England on a Kindertransport on July 3, 1939. The childhood memoir was written by Ruth Haas Sadovnik while in England and contain entries relating her childhood life in Berlin, Germany, and her experiences as a child in England, 1941-1945. indertransport on July 3, 1939. The childhood memoir was written by Ruth Haas Sadovnik while in England and contain entries relating her childhood life in Berlin, Germany, and her experiences as a child in England, 1941-1945.

System of Arrangement

The Ruth Haas Sadovnik collection is arranged in a single series.

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This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.