Margaret Iglauer collection

Identifier
irn513570
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0193
  • RG-10.241
Dates
1 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1946, 1 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1994
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Dutch
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

6

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Margaret Iglauer was born on 2 December 1910 in Nürnberg, Germany, and married Ernest Iglauer in 1936. She and her husband lived in Nürnberg until November 1938 when the events of Kristallnacht prevented Ernest’s return to Germany after a business trip abroad. After Margaret’s escape from Germany in December 1938, she reunited with her husband in the Netherlands, where they eventually settled in Amsterdam after a brief stay in England in 1939. Ernest Iglauer moved his hops exporting business, Gebrüder Tuchmann, to Amsterdam in 1939. When new restrictions on Jews in the Netherlands were introduced by the Nazi occupation force in 1942, the Iglauers fled to Switzerland via Belgium and France where they were assisted by the French Underground movement. In Switzerland, the Iglauers were separated into different refugee camps. Margaret Iglauer stayed at a camp run by the Salvation Army in Lausanne for several months in 1942, and then was transferred to other refugee camps in Lausanne and then in Basel. Ernest Iglauer stayed in Lausanne where he worked for the Schweizerische Jüdische Flüchtlingshilfe, an aid organization for displaced persons. The Iglauers remained in Switzerland until 1945, when they returned to the Netherlands. After a brief stay in England, Margaret and Ernest Iglauer immigrated to the United States in Dec. 1946.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

This collection was donated by Margaret Iglauer to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.

Scope and Content

Relates to the life of Margaret and Ernest Iglauer, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1938. The collection details the couple's sojourns in England, the Netherlands, Belgium,and France during World War II, their stay in refugee camps in Switzerland, and their subsequent emigration to the United States.

System of Arrangement

Organized into three series: Series 1: Margaret Iglauer's memoir Series 2: Documents regarding Margaret and Ernest Iglauer's flight from Nazi Germany Series 3: Miscellaneous documents

People

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.