Emily Kesser collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Emily Kesser in 2001.
Scope and Content
Consists of: 1) one memory book and one family book, including one birth certificate of Hilde Reifenberg, the donor's mother, issued in Paderborn, Germany on 30 Dec.1938, 2) one address book kept by the donor's mother in New York; 3) a British transit visa issued to Ernst Israel Lewin and his wife Hilde, the donor's parents, on 14 Aug.1939 in Paderborn, Germany; 4) one letter and one family book stating that Ernst Lewin and Hilda Reifenberg were married on 19 Feb.1938,; 5) one memory book for Adolf Lewin, the donor's paternal grandfather, who died on 11 May 1938; and 6) a certificate, dated 8 October 1935, stating that Ernst Lewin was employed in the Rosenbaum hat factory as a bookkeeper.
People
- Lewin, Hilda Reifenberg.
- Lewin, Adolf.
- Lewin, Ernst.
Genre
- Document