Object ID
2019.2.60
Object Name
Certification, Birth
Date
8-6-1888
Files
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Description
Double sided. Broken into 8 sections and taped. Front: "Form. 47." and "Standesamt No 2" at the top of the page in black. Black handwriting "3625" and purple stamped writing in the top left margin.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
Leo Jacobsohn’s birth certificate, listing his religion as Jewish and notarized with his hand-written notice dated Jan. 28, 1939 that he will take on the middle name “Israel.”
Documents [2019.2.60-68] of a German family living through the Holocaust and its aftermath. Leo Jacobsohn, a Jewish citizen of Hamburg, Germany, was married to Frida Mehrens, who was Lutheran. The document collection of this mixed marriage provides a window into their trials and tragedies throughout the period of the Third Reich, along with the family’s attempt to claim restitution owing to Leo’s perishing in Theresienstadt just prior to the end of World War II.
Dimensions
13 x 8 1/4 "
Keywords
Leo Jacobsohn, Frida Jacobsohn, Frieda Jacobsohn
Subcollection
Jacobsohn
Recommended Citation
"Birth Certificate of Leo Jacobsohn" (1888). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2019.2.60.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1437
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