Lea Herlinger Kaluzna family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517349
• English
• 1923-1956
• folders 11
• Updated 7 months ago

The Herlinger family papers consist primarily of identification documents for Ivo and Elsa Herlinger, who lived as refugees from the Nazis in Italy during World War II, and later immigrated to the United States. The majority of the documents are items such as identification cards, passports, a birth certificate, and a marriage certificate. Other items of identification include verification of employment for Ivo, and his declaration of intent to the United States. The Herlinger family papers consist primarily of identification documents for Ivo and Elsa Herlinger, who lived as refugees from ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517350
• English
• 1940-1950
• overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 5.125 inches (13.018 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Chrome Leica 35mm camera used by Ivo Herlinger while he was living in hiding in Italy from 1941-1944. After Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia in June 1941, Ivo and his wife, Elsa, fled Zagreb to avoid internment in a German labor camp. They had to leave their 2 year old daughter, Lea, with an aunt. A few months later, using jewels they had sewn into the lining of their clothes, they paid a student to bring Lea to them in Trieste, Italy. The family spent the next three years hiding under false identities in Rome and other towns in Italy, where Ivo used his camera to document their daily life. ...