Renee Kann Silver family collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Renee Kann Silver.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a camera with case, a medal, documents, oral testimony, and photographs related to the experiences of Renee Kann (later Silver), her parents, Edmund and Friedel Klaber Kann, and her sister, Edith (later Roth) in Germany and France before the war, in France and Switzerland, including their imprisonment in Gurs internment camp, during the war, and in Switzerland, France, and the United States after the war.
Genre
- Collection