Herman Silbiger collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022 by Julie Kaye, daughter of Herman Silbiger.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of personal documents, correspondence, a luggage tag and label, and Herman Silbiger's scrapbook within a school exercise book that features materials from his family's journey through France, Spain, Jamaica (Camp Gibraltar), and Curaçao from 1942-1945. It also includes the tin cigar box within which he kept the ephemera prior to compiling it into the scrapbook.
Genre
- Collection