Mara Vishniac Kohn collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517746
• English
• 1934
• overall: | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Commemorative coin issued to encourage immigration that belonged to 8 year old Mara Vishniac, a young Jewish girl who left Nazi Germany with her family in 1938-1940. The coin was struck in 1934 to memorialize the journey of Baron von Mildenstein, a Nazi party member, to Palestine. The trip resulted in a pro-Zionist report encouraging Jewish emigration, published in the nationalist newspaper, Der Angriff. Mara lived in Berlin with her parents, Roman and Luta, and brother, Wolf. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Jews experienced increasingly harsh persecution. Following the Kristallnacht ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517747
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

Hitler in der Karikatur der Welt, a book of caricatures of Hitler that belonged to Mara Vishniac. This is a 1938 edition of a book originally published in 1933 with the phrase "approved by the Fuhrer" printed on the cover. Mara lived in Berlin with her parents, Roman and Luta, and brother, Wolf. After Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in 1933, life became very precarious for Jews in Germany. Following the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, Mara, age 12, and her 16 year old brother Wolf were sent to stay with relatives in Riga, Latvia. Soon after, Mara was sent to a home for refug...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517748
• English
• 1941
• Updated 1 year ago

Ich erlebte USA im krieg [I witnessed the US at War), an anti-American, anti-Semitic book published in Nazi Germany that belonged to Mara Vishniac. Mara lived in Berlin with her parents, Roman and Luta, and brother, Wolf. After Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in 1933, life became very precarious for Jews in Germany. Following the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, Mara, age 12, and her 16 year old brother Wolf were sent to Riga, Latvia. Soon after, Mara was sent to a home for refugee children in Sweden. In 1940, Mara, her mother, and brother moved to Stockholm and obtained visa...