Gerda Ehrenberg family collection

Identifier: irn60529
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Annette Ehrenberg Sacks.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a print of the Breslau synagogue and a report card relating to the experiences of Gerda Ehrenberg and her family in Breslau, Germany, before the Holocaust.

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Gerda Ehrenberg report card
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn60531
- English
- 1935
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of one report card issued by the Jüdische Volksschule zu Breslau to Gerda Ehrenberg, who was born in 1925. Though the report card is dated May 31, 1937, it refers to the fall 1935 school term.
Signed etching of a Neu Synagogue, Breslau saved by a Jewish emigre family
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn62205
- English
- overall: Height: 30.875 inches (78.423 cm) | Width: 24.375 inches (61.913 cm) pictorial area: Height: 22.750 inches (57.785 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Large etching of the New Synagogue in Breslau, Germany, (Wroclaw, Poland) brought by Harry Ehrenberg and his family when they left Breslau for the United States in 1937. The etching is signed by the artist, Siegfried Laboschin. The synagogue, a center of liberal Judaism in Breslau, was destroyed by fire during Kristallnacht on November 9-10, 1938. The New Synagoge was designed by Edwin Oppler and built in 1865-1872. It was the largest synagogue in Breslau and one of the largest in Germany. In 1933, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, Breslau had a Jewish population of over 20,0...

Gerda Ehrenberg family collection

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Gerda Ehrenberg report card

Signed etching of a Neu Synagogue, Breslau saved by a Jewish emigre family