The Gajer and Kauders-Kuhe families collection

Identifier
irn538179
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 and 2016 by Susan Gayer Meeks and Anna Gayer.

Scope and Content

Identity cards, documents, certificates and scrip from before, during, and after the Holocaust for Bozena Grunhut (nee Belska) and Abraham Gajer (later Gayer) [donor's parents] and their first spouses Robert Israel Kauders-Kuhe (later Jaros) and Nelli Hammer, and Robert's mother Adrienne Kauders-Kuhe. In addition to identification paperwork, the collection contains DP camp materials, immigration and naturalization documents for Canada and USA, compensation claims, as well as correspondence concerning Nelli Gayer's treatment for PTSD related to her time in the concentration camps. Collection also includes documents, photographs and letters related to the Anna Gayer and her mother Nelly Hammer Gajer/Gayer; 3 cassettes containing oral history interviews between the donor Abraham Gayer. This material augments items donated by Susan Gayer Meeks (donor's half sister); it contains information about Nelly Hammer's life in Krakow, time in Krakow ghetto, Skarzysko-Kamienna, and HASAG Czestochowa as well as her marriage, divorce, and compensation papers. Also, bracelet worn by Nelly Hammer when she was institutionalized at a hospital in Nashville, TN in the 1950s as a result of her PTSD from her experiences during WWII.

Genre

  • Collection
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