Otto and Ann Silber Mandel papers
Extent and Medium
folders
oversize folder
5
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lillian Rattner.
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Lillian Rattner.
Scope and Content
Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Anny Silber (b. 1917) and her husband Otto Mandl (b. 1913) from Vienna, Austria [donor's parents]. Documents include school report cards, Deutsches Reich Reisepass [German passports], correspondence addressing their emigration from Austria and assistance by Otto's cousin Sam Kellner in New York. Also included are State Department letters concerning the 1941 emigration of Anny's parents Sigmund and Malvine from France and birth certificate for Otto ["Otto Bass recte Geiger" parents "Israel Bass recte Geiger und Adele geb. Bornstein"]. While Otto's mother and brother Fritz did emigrate from Vienna, his father did not.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Lillian Rattner
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Birth certificates.
- Passports.
- Report cards.
- Document
- Letters.