Berger family papers
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Felicia Berger Sturzer
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Felicia Berger Sturzer.
Scope and Content
Photographs and documents illustrating the experiences of Herman Berger (b. 1901 in Nadworna, Poland) and Ethel [Etka] Berger (b. 1902 in Stanislawow, Poland) who placed their child Meyer in hiding during the Holocaust, then they evaded the Nazis through the rest of the war. After the war ended, they returned to where their son was in hiding, only to find out that he had been denounced and did not survive. Contains identification cards issued in Bielsko, Poland and La Paz, Bolivia, where the family went in the early 1950s; photographs of Herman, Etka and Meyer pre-war and wartime, and of Herman, Ethel and their daughter Felicia, who was born in 1946.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Identification cards.
- Document