Death Certificate of Leo Jacobsohn

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Object ID

2019.2.63

Object Name

Certification, Death

Date

6-10-1945

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Description

Two column printed table titled "Úmrtní list" with "Jakobsohn, Leo" typed into the top right cell

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Leo Jacobsohn’s mimeographed death certificate in Czech, Terezin, June 10, 1945, certifying that he perished in Theresienstadt on May 26, 1945. No cause of death is listed.

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 time 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

11 3/4 x 8 1/4 "

Keywords

Leo Jacobsohn, Frida Jacobsohn, Leo Jakobsohn, Frieda Jacobsohn

Subcollection

Jacobsohn

Recommended Citation

"Death Certificate of Leo Jacobsohn" (1945). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2019.2.63.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1440

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