Aenne Hertz papers
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received these papers from Ilse Berg on June 14, 2000. Ilse Berg obtained these papers after the death of her husband, the nephew of Aenne Hertz.
Scope and Content
Contains legal documents and correspondence pertaining to Aenne Hertz, a social worker in Germany from 1933 to 1941. After being fired from her public job in 1933 by the Nazis she became a social worker for Jewish organizations and enabled Jews to escape Nazi Germany.
Genre
- Document