Alexander and Hella Guhrauer: personal papers

Alexander and Hella Guhrauer: personal papers 

Alexander and Hella Guhrauer: personal papers 

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This collection contains the personal papers of the Guhrauer family from Braunschweig whose son Alexander Israel Guhrauer and his future wife Hella Sara Freudenthal fled  Nazi-Germany in the 1930s.

Personal papers including Hella Guhrauer's German nationality certificate and certificate of registration for aliens (1755/2); Alexander Guhrauer's tax clearance certificate ('Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung') and application for the Ex-service (Non-British) Association (1755/1); letter from his father, Max Guhrauer, sent just before their departure for Theresienstadt concentration camp and his death certificate; Paula Guhrauer's savings card of the Bank of the autonomous Jewish self-government of Theresienstadt, Theresienstadt banknotes (1755/3), her registration certificate of the Czechoslovak Repatriation Office and German passport. Also included are an article from St Gallener Tageblatt (1945) entitled 'Das"Musterghett" Theresienstadt' and articles relating to the opening ceremony of a Holocaust memorial in Hannover in 1994.