Estate of Hanni Vogelweid papers
Extent and Medium
folder
oversize folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Hanni Vogelweid
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by the Estate of Hanni Vogelweid.
Scope and Content
Documents illustrating the experiences of the Sondheimer family who emigrated from Berlin, Germany in 1934 to Kovno, Lithuania and then were forced to flee through Eastern Europe eventually being interned in a ghetto in Shanghai, China, where they remained throughout the Second World War. The collection represents Moritz Sondheimer, his wife Setty and their daughter Hanni; dated 1930's and 1940's; in Lithuanian, German, Chinese and English.
Genre
- Document