The collection consists of an accordion and case, music book, patches, issues of Boy Scout journals, commemorative Boy Scout stamps, Boy Scout diaries and pamphlets, and writings related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.
John Honig collection