Ilona Penner Blech collection

Identifier
irn516019
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.69
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

boxes

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Ilona Blech donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Nov. 29, 2004. She is a volunteer in the Archives Department. The certificates and tube were added to the collection on May 19, 2005. Two folders and 25 photographs were added on March 22, 2007.

Scope and Content

Consists of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Ilona Penner Blech, originally of Berlin, Germany, who participated in a Kindertransport to England in 1939. Includes wartime letters written by her aunt, Rose Kiegel, who lived in London, to Ilona's mother in Germany; a photograph of Rose; a photograph of her mother, Janka Penner, in a French internment camp in 1941; and a copy of Ilona's autograph book, filled with entries made by German and English friends. Also includes certificates of achievement from English schools and the cardboard tube used to send these certificates. Also includes identity and visa paperwork for Chaim David and Janka Penner, naturalization paperwork, post-war photographs of family and friends, and photocopies of documents regarding Ilona Penner while she was in England.

Subjects

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.