Hugo Ostreich papers
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Paula Berg
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Paula Berg, great niece of Hugo Ostreich.
Scope and Content
Collection belonging to Hugo Ostreich including a 1953 US "Federal Textbook on Citizenship"; a 1956 "New Citizens Reception" program from the Minneapolis Council of Americanization; a Yahrzeit certificate and letter from 1962 for Hugo Ostreich; and photographs that illustrate donor's [Paula Berg] great uncle's experiences fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany in 1939 with his younger brother Alfred, leaving behind Hugo's wife, Erna Baer and extended relatives. Hugo and Alfred survived WWII in Shanghai, immigrating to the United States in the late 1940s.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Paula Berg
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.