Ernie Haas papers
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ernest Haas
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 and 2014 by Ernie Haas. An accretion was added to the collection in 2017 by Myrna Haas, widow of Ernie Haas.
Scope and Content
Photographs and letter documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Haas family. Photographs include pre-war depictions of Semi Haas and his wife Frieda Steinberger Haas and their children Walter, Ilse, and Ernst in Neumarkt, Germany and after 1938 in Fürth. Also included are pre-war photographs of extended family members and post-war photographs of Ernst in Germany after his liberation from Riga and Stutthof concentration camps. Letter to Walter in Brooklyn, New York in 1941 from Semi, Frieda, Ernst and Ilse and Fürth, Germany. Frieda, Semi and Ilse did not survive.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mr. Ernie Haas
Subjects
- Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz (Germany)
- Fürth (Germany)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document