Scheiner family papers
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Bertha S. Freud donated the Scheiner family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997.
Scope and Content
The Scheiner family papers consists of a German passport issued to David Scheiner, Bertha Scheiner Freud’s brother, on September 8, 1938; a German passport issued to Helene Scheiner, Bertha Freud’s sister-in-law, on May 6, 1940; a German certificate issued by S. Katz & Co. in Vienna, Austria stating that Berta (Bertha) Scheiner has been dismissed as part of the Aryanization of the company, June 30, 1938; a letter in German from the Oesterreichische Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein stating that the bearer Berta Scheiner is allowed to take RM 30 to England and that no other privileges have been granted, September 17, 1938; a 3-page handwritten letter in English from Ann Hartley to Berta Scheiner and Miss Salpeter regarding their cousin’s efforts to secure permits for them to come to England, May 23, 1938; and a personal account / memoir entitled “My Encounter with a Nazi Student,” by Esther Knopf Scheiner, Bertha Freud’s sister-in-law, February 1992.
System of Arrangement
The Scheiner family papers is arranged in a single series.
People
- Freud, Bertha Scheiner.
- Hartley, Ann.
- Scheiner, Helene.
- Scheiner, David.
- Scheiner, Esther Knopf.
Subjects
- Soviet Union.
- Austria
- Germany.
- Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945.
- Banks and banking, Austrian.
- Japan.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Passports.
- Certificates.
- Document