Julius Simon family collection

Identifier: irn607879
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn607879

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Lore Deutsch, the daughter of Julius Simon.

Scope and Content

The collection consist of artifacts, clippings, correspondence, documents photograph prints and album relating to the experiences of Julius and Gerda Bundheim Simon and their daughter Lore before the Holocaust in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in the United States after their 1939 emigration.

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Simon family collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn107284
- English
- folders oversize box 4 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Simon family papers include correspondence, passports, photographic materials, and a War Bond documenting Julius, Gerda, and Lore Simon from Karlsruhe and their immigration to the United States in 1939. Correspondence includes a 1941 letter and six 1942 Red Cross forms from the Bundheim family in Assen, Germany to the Simon family in New York as well as 1946 Red Cross letter tracing the fates of Elias, Griet, Martha, and Erich Bundheim. A 1933 German passport documents Julius and Lore Simon, and a 1938 passport marked with a red “J” documents Gerda Simon. Photographs depict Lore with he...
Fragment from a Torah mantle destroyed during Kristallnacht
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607880
- English
- overall: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Salvaged fragment of a burned Torah mantle cut and preserved by Julius Simon on November 10, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Karlsruhe, Germany. Julius Simon and his family escaped to New York in 1939.

Julius Simon family collection

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Simon family collection

Fragment from a Torah mantle destroyed during Kristallnacht