Hermine Berkovits collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Dorothy Shapiro donated these documents regarding her aunt to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Mar. 17, 2004.
Scope and Content
Consists of documents that relate the Holocaust era experiences of Hermine Berkovits, a French Jewish woman who survived the war with her children. Her children spent the war in hiding, and while using false papers, she helped to find hiding places for other Jewish children. Includes a copy of a photograph of Hermine, her children, and the children she helped to hide. Also included is a copy of a letter from the Red Cross stating that Henrich Berkovits (Hermine's husband) perished in Auschwitz.
Subjects
- France.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
- Certificates.