Kann family collection

Identifier: irn722960
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Contains materials regarding the Kann family's experiences during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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Elise Jaeger photograph collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn43016
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Photographic prints, an invitation, and a menu, illustrating the experiences of Jacob and Dora Kann and their children Otto, Elise (donor), Judith, and Jacobus in Dordrecht, the Netherlands before WWII. Also included are post-war images of the children, whom all survived in hiding, after the war under the care of their grandmother who also survived in hiding. Elise and Judith were hidden by Mollie and Jerry van Heel. Jacobus and Otto were in hiding in separate locations as were Jacob and Dora, the latter two of whom did not survive.
Kann family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn45710
- English
- 1908-2007
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Correspondence, manuscripts, book cover, news clipping, primarily related to the efforts of Elizabeth Kann to determine the whereabouts of her husband, Johan Kann, following the German invasion and occupation of the Netherlands in 1940. Also contains a memoir by Kann's daughter, Jean Kann Sonder, written in 2007, and other family memoirs, as well as information about Johan Kann's father, Jacobus Kann, a prominent Dutch Zionist in the early 20th century. The Kann family papers contains correspondence, manuscripts, a book cover, and news clippings, primarily related to the efforts of Elizabet...
Elise Kann Jaeger collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47928
- English
- 1 photograph album,
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains a photograph album created by Molly and Jerry van Heel for Elise [donor] on the occasion of her 14th birthday, December 24, 1944; typed label on front cover “EINDHOVEN bevrijd door Het 1ste Geall. Luchtlandingsleger en Het Tweede Britsche Leger. 18/19 September 1944.” [liberated by Allied Airborne Army, the 1st and Second British Army. 18/19 September 1944]; handwritten inscription on inside cover. Scrapbook contains photographs of American and British soldiers in being welcomed by the Dutch citizens of Eindhoven, as well as images of the Allies taking German soldiers into custody....

Kann family collection

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Elise Jaeger photograph collection

Kann family papers

Elise Kann Jaeger collection