Werner and Inge Berg Katzenstein family collection

Identifier: irn73430
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Werner and Inge Berg Katzenstein.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a pin relating to the experiences of Inge Berg and her family in Nairobi, Kenya, during the Holocaust, and of cards, envelopes, stamps, and postcards relating to the experiences of Werner Katzenstein in prewar Germany and during and after the war in the United States.

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Werner Katzenstein postcards
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn88441
- English
- 1904-1948
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Werner Katzenstein postcards include one postcard addressed to Katzenstein while he lived in the Netherlands; postcards addressed to unrelated people including Hans Bornemann, Robert Heinemann, Wilhelm Schaefer, and others; and blank postcards documenting the 1936 Olympics, bear Deutsches Reich stamps and Nazi imagery, and one advertising "Der ewige Jude."
Decorative pin with engraved initials CB made in Kenya for a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn88452
- English
- overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Handcrafted pin with the initials CB made for Clara Davids Berg, when the extended Berg family was living in Kenya after fleeing Cologne, Germany, in May/June 1939. The family had lived in nearby Lechenich for generations, but under the Nazi dictatorship, which took power in 1933, Jews were made outcasts from German society. The Berg's were warned by neighbors to leave their home prior to the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938. Their houses were vandalized and the family decided to leave Germany. They wanted to stay together as a family and a friend got them permits for British rul...

Werner and Inge Berg Katzenstein family collection

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Werner Katzenstein postcards

Decorative pin with engraved initials CB made in Kenya for a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany