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Copyright Holder: Ms. Susan Stevens
Vera Gutmann collection
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Collection of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to Vera Gutmann (donor's aunt) and her family's experiences before, during and after the Holocaust, as well as post-war restitution papers. Vera surived in Berlin throughout the war along with her mother, Lotte Friedman, living and working under a false identity as a secretary. Vera and Lotte emigrated to the United States in 1946 on board the"Marine Flasher" settling in Chicago where Vera's brother Hans Freeman lived with his family.