Object ID
2019.2.68
Object Name
Letter, Form
Date
9-4-1950
Files
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Description
"Hansestadt Hamburg" printed across the top, red stamp of castle with number 3.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
Document from social welfare office for reparations in Hamburg acknowledging Leo Jacobsohn’s birth in Hamburg and death on May 26, 1945 in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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
5 7/8 x 8 1/4 "
Keywords
Leo Jacobsohn, Frida Jacobsohn, Frieda Jacobsohn
Subcollection
Jacobsohn
Recommended Citation
"Form Acknowledging Leo Jacobsohn's Birth in Hamburg and Death in Theresienstadt" (1950). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2019.2.68.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1445