Dr. Fred Flatau papers

Identifier
irn515018
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.275.1
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Italian
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515018

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Dr. Fred Flatau donated these papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004.

Scope and Content

Consists of materials related to the wartime experiences of the Flatau family, who escaped from Germany to Italy in 1940 living first in the Ferramonte camp and then in Rome, Italy. In 1944, they came to the United States as part of a refugee group living at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York. Includes a 1941 certificate of good citizenship, baptismal certificates and identity cards for Dr. Ernest Flatau and Anna Maria (Anny) Goldschmidt, a photo of Ernest and Anna with their two sons, Fred and Rolf, 13 tourist photographic postcards of the Collegio S. Leone Magno in Rome, and Alfred Flatau's 1947 Boy Scout identity card in New York.

People

  • Flatau family.

Corporate Bodies

  • Boy Scouts of America

Subjects

  • United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
  • Italy--History--German occupation, 1943-1945.

Genre

  • Photographic postcards.
  • Photographs.
  • Document
  • Identification cards.
  • Baptismal certificates.
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