Frank Bearse collection

Identifier
irn634718
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2018.593.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn634718

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Michael Mimeles

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Michael Mimeles who received them from his mother in-law. Her late husband, Frank Bearse, acquired them during the war from another soldier.

Scope and Content

Contains a document marked “…large examination document of the confessions of the former Camp Commander, Mauthausen, Standartenfuerhrer Franz Ziereis”; 3 pages typed recto and verso; dated 24 May 1945. Also includes a two-page typed document titled “Record of Events Co. “E” 260 Infantry”; an envelope addressed to German Jewish Children’s Aid in New York, NY, postmarked May and November 1940, with some stamps have detached from the envelope, thought to have been used to send birth certificates of Jewish children for immigration or purposes.

Corporate Bodies

Genre

  • Envelopes.
  • Interrogation reports.
  • Document
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