Transporter's License for Irene Erdheim from Vienna, Austria

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Object ID

2016.1.02

Object Name

License

Date

5-16-1940

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Description

Front: "Hawker's or Transporter's License in bold at top left. Photograph of Erdheim at top right. Three purple oval hand stamps. Back: Text at top in English; middle in Arabic, bottom in Hebrew.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Irene Erdheim, who had worked at the German post office in Vienna, was able to leave Vienna as a Jewish refugee for Palestine by 1940, as attested to by her Transporter's License issued in Haifa.

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Dimensions

8 1/8 x 9 3/4"

Keywords

Irene Erdheim, Jewish Refugee, Palestine, Vienna

Subcollection

Early

Recommended Citation

"Transporter's License for Irene Erdheim from Vienna, Austria" (1940). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2016.1.02.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1262

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.