Martin Harth collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Martin Harth and Rachel Harth
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Martin Harth donated the Martin Harth collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Scope and Content
The Martin Harth collection consists of a certificate issued to Meier Harth, a German Jewish Veteran of World War I, in Giessen, Germany, on July 13, 1934. Written on the side, in pencil (translation): "The enclosed Ehren Kreuz (Honor Medal)/may have helped my father's release [from a concentration camp]." Also includes a photograph of Meier Harth, seated, with an open book in his lap.
System of Arrangement
The Martin Harth collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Harth, Meier.
Subjects
- World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--Germany.
- Giessen (Germany)
- Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Certificates.
- Photograph.