Kliger family collection

Identifier
irn523518
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.111
Dates
1 Jan 1870 - 31 Dec 1980
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn523518

Extent and Medium

box

oversize box

1

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Joslin Kryjcir donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 11, 2006. Ms. Kryjcir found the material in a basement of a house she purchased, which belonged to Evelyn Kliger, who passed away with no descendents.

Scope and Content

Consists of one photograph album containing pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the extended Kliger family, originally of Germany and Austria. Includes correspondence and documentation regarding Evelyn Kliger, who was sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1939, while her parents, Josef and Katherina Kliger, escaped from Vienna to Switzerland. Includes letters from Evelyn in England to her parents as well as correspondence to relief agencies after the war, as her parents sought to reunite with their daughter. Also includes documentation related to Josef Kliger's post-war conversion from Judaism to Christianity.

Subjects

  • Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--England.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.