Marion Kaufman Cassirer family collection

Identifier: irn44456
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn44456

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Marion Kaufman Cassirer. An accretion was received in 2014.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a suitcase and key, audio tapes, documents, newspaper clippings, and prayer book relating to the experiences of Marion Kaufmann and her mother Lina in the Netherlands and the United States after the Holocaust, during which they fled Germany and lived in hiding separately in the Netherlands. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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Oral history interview with Lena Kaufman
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47094
- English
- 1973
- 3 sound cassettes, analog
- Updated 1 year ago
Lina Kaufman and Marion Kaufman Cassirer papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn49571
- English
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains identity documents, restitution paperwork, newspaper clippings, and other materials concerning Marion Kaufman (now Marion Cassirer) and her mother, Lina Kaufman, who hid in the Netherlands during the Holocaust with the help of a false identity papers provided by a non-Jewish friend, Emmy Erdmann. Marion was in several different hiding situations, including with the Edgar family, at a convent, with the Beelen family in Overasselt posing as one of the family's children, and with a family of Roma, Lina hid with the Wesselius family in Oude Wetering and lost contact with Marion for a f...
Yellow and green suitcase with key used by a German Jewish girl
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn49574
- English
- 1949
- a: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm) | Depth: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Yellow suitcase with green trim and a small key used by 12 year old Marion Kaufmann when she and her mother emigrated to the United States from Holland in February 1949. Marion's parents, Lina and Walter, owned an electrical repair shop in Berlin that was destroyed during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. They worked in a Jewish daycare center until 1941, when the orphans were deported and the center closed. Walter made preparations for the family to escape, but was arrested in October 1942. Six year old Marion and her mother Lina fled to the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, Dr. Max Knapp of th...
Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn49575
- English
- 1936
- Updated 1 year ago
Psalm book given to Lina Kaufmann with an inscription by the Wesselius family who provide a hiding place for her from September 1943-May 1945 in Holland. Marion's parents, Lina and Walter, owned an electrical repair shop in Berlin that was destroyed during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. They worked in a Jewish daycare center until 1941, when the orphans were deported and the center closed. Walter made preparations for the family to escape, but was arrested in October 1942. Six year old Marion and her mother Lina fled to the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, Dr. Max Knapp of the Dutch undergro...
Dutch newspaper clippings
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn513944
- English
- 1945
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains Dutch newspaper clippings from Mar./April 1945: 28 Maart 1945, document entitled "Trouw"; newspaper clipping 13 April 1945 announcing the death of President Roosevelt and showing a map of the Allied march into Berlin, Germany; and a flyer imploring for all citizens to aid the Allied effort with any means necessary.

Marion Kaufman Cassirer family collection

Child Items

Oral history interview with Lena Kaufman

Lina Kaufman and Marion Kaufman Cassirer papers

Yellow and green suitcase with key used by a German Jewish girl

Book

Dutch newspaper clippings