Eric Bergtraun papers
Extent and Medium
boxes
folders
10
2
Creator(s)
- Eric Bergtraun
Biographical History
Eric Bergtraun (1925-2008) was born Erich Maximilian Bergtraun in Vienna to Edmund Leon Bergtraun and Lilly Wagner Bergtraun. His family left Austria for Shanghai shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938 and was forced to live in the Hongkew Ghetto for three years as the war intensified. Eric was active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco, and married Polly Bergtraun (nee Hertz).
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eric Bergtraun
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eric Bergtraun
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Eric Bergtraun donated the Eric Bergtraun papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 and 2001. The accession previously cataloged as 2001.350.1 has been incorporated into this collection.
Scope and Content
The Eric Bergtraun papers consist of biographical materials, photographic materials, log books, and scrapbooks documenting Bergtraun’s participation in Boy Scout activities as a Jewish refugee in Shanghai during and after World War II.
System of Arrangement
The Eric Bergtraun papers are arranged as four series: I. Biographical materials, 1944-1953, II. Photographic materials, approximately 1925-1948, III. Log Books, 1946-1948, IV. Scrapbooks, 1945-1948
People
- Eric Bergtraun
Subjects
- Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
- Shanghai (China)
- Boy Scouts--China--Shanghai.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.