Renee Kann Silver family collection

Identifier: irn62544
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 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.

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Kann family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn60870
- English
- folders 12
- Updated 8 months ago
The Kann family papers include biographical material, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to Edmond, Friederike, Renée, and Edith Kann’s pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences in Saarbrücken, Germany, Gurs concentration camp, and France. The collection includes documents and photographs relating to their imprisonment in Gurs, false identity cards, and postcards sent to Renée and Edith while they were in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. The collection also includes a memoir written by Edmond Kann documenting his family’s experiences. Biographical material includes a Reisepass (...
Oral testimony of Edmund Kann
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn87400
- English
- 1 sound cassette, analog
- Updated 8 months ago
Voigtlander Bessa camera and case used by a German Jewish family while imprisoned in Gurs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn87409
- English
- a: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) b: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Voigtlander Bessa self-erecting camera and fitted leather case used by Renee, Edith, Edmund, and Friedel Kann, a German Jewish refugee family from Saarbrucken, Germany, while they were imprisoned in Gurs internment camp in Vichy France from May to August 1940. Renee’s family left Saarland after its 1935 reunification with Germany and settled in France. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded France, and 7 days later, Renee’s family was arrested by French authorities as enemy aliens. They were sent to Gurs internment camp in southwestern France. On August 14, the family was released and settled in ...
Bronze Marshal Petain medal given to a Jewish girl living as a refugee in France
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn87454
- English
- overall: | Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Small, bronze Marshal Petain medal given to 11 year old Renee Kann, a German Jewish refugee from Saarbrucken, Germany, for being a good student at a school in Vichy France circa fall 1940 to June 1942. Renee’s family left Saarland after its 1935 reunification with Germany and settled in France. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded France, and 7 days later, Renee’s family was arrested by French authorities as enemy aliens. They were sent to Gurs internment camp in southwestern France. On August 14, the family was released and settled in Villeurbanne, Vichy France. In June 1942, Friedel sent Rene...

Renee Kann Silver family collection

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Kann family papers

Oral testimony of Edmund Kann

Voigtlander Bessa camera and case used by a German Jewish family while imprisoned in Gurs

Bronze Marshal Petain medal given to a Jewish girl living as a refugee in France