Leather wallet with flap closure carried by a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany to the US
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, United States
Leather wallet used by 18 year old Stefi Siegel when she emigrated to the United States in September 1938 from Mosbach, Germany. After Hitler came to power in 1933, policies were put in place that persecuted and excluded Jews from German society. In 1938, Stefi's parents, Siegfried and Friedel, managed to send her to the United States; her 15 year old brother, Walter, was sent to the Netherlands to learn a trade and possibly emigrate to Palestine. Her parents emigrated to England in 1939 and would get to the US in 1943. In spring 1940, Germany occupied the Netherlands. Walter eventually was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp, then to Bergen Belsen, where he died of typhus in March 1945.
- Title: Leather wallet with flap closure carried by a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany to the US
- Provenance: The wallet was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Stefi Geisel.
- Subject Keywords: Jewish families--Germany. Jewish refugees--United States. Jews--Persecutions--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.
- Type: Dress Accessories
- Rights: Permanent Collection
- External Link: See the full record at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Medium: Light brown, rectangular textured leather wallet with a flap closure and one cloth lined pocket.
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