Renee Kann Silver family collection

• 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 (...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn87400
• English
• 1 sound cassette, analog
• Updated 8 months ago

• 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 ...

• 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...