Rita Kerner Hilton papers

Collection of documents relating to Flora and Rita Kerner immediately following their liberation from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, and their work in the Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp and in Sweden after the war; also included in the collection are papers relating to their restitution claims. 

Rita Kerner Hilton was born Rita Levin on 22 July 1926 in Warsaw, Poland to Flora and Moses Levin. Her mother Flora (née Kleinert, later Flora Kerner, b. 1899) was born in Pabianice, Poland to Markus and Salomea Kleinert. Her father Moses was a businessman. Rita moved to Pabianice as a young child. After the German invasion of Poland, Rita and her family were sent to the Łódź ghetto. Rita was later deported to Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen. She and her mother immigrated to the United States in May 1946. Rita later settled in Florida. 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Rita Kerner Hilton papers 

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