Eleanor and Ernest Fried collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522850
• English
• 1900-2000
• boxes 5
• Updated 8 months ago

Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war correspondence, postcards, photographs, forms, family trees, genealogical charts, photograph albums, and journals of Ernest Fried and Eleanor (Lore) Lustig, both of whom emigrated from Germany to the United States in the late 1930s.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522851
• English
• overall: Height: 12.875 inches (32.703 cm) | Width: 35.875 inches (91.123 cm) | Depth: 22.250 inches (56.515 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Trunk used by 22-year old Eleanor Lustig when she left Germany for the United States in 1937. Eleanor was Protestant but her father was born Jewish, though he had converted to Protestantism before marrying her mother. The anti-Jewish laws enacted by the Nazi government beginning in 1933 used genetic ancestry to determine racial purity. Under these laws, Eleanor was considered Jewish and the anti-Semitic persecution made life difficult for her. She left Hamburg on the SS Washington for the United States in November 1937.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522852
• English
• overall: Height: 50.125 inches (127.318 cm) | Width: 26.125 inches (66.358 cm) | Depth: 22.500 inches (57.15 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Standing trunk, part of a matched set (2005.140.4), used by Ernest Ludwig when he emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1938. Ernest was running the family lumber business in Landau when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Following the Reichstag Fire in late February, Germany became a police state and Jews often were forced to give up their businesses. Ernest and his mother were preparing to leave Germany when Ernest was arrested on November 10, 1938, during Kristallnacht. He was on a transport to Dachau concentration camp when the Gestapo found a receipt for his ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522853
• English
• overall: Height: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm) | Width: 31.625 inches (80.328 cm) | Depth: 18.880 inches (47.955 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Steamer trunk, part of a set with 2005.140.3, used by Ernest Fried when he emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1938. Ernest was running the family lumber business in Landau when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Following the Reichstag Fire in late February, Germany became a police state and Jews often were forced to give up their businesses. Ernest and his mother were preparing to leave Germany when Ernest was arrested on November 10, 1938, during Kristallnacht. He was on a transport to Dachau concentration camp when the Gestapo found a receipt for his emigrat...