The luggage label was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022 by Julie Kaye, daughter of Herman Silbiger.
The Silbigers, a Dutch Jewish family, fled the Nazi regime by way of France, Spain, a British internment camp (Camp Gibraltar) in Jamaica, then Curacao, and eventually Miami, Florida.
A blue and white luggage label for the Hotel Continental Vigo featuring a black and white illustration of the hotel at the label's center inside an ornate curved border. The back of the label is blank save for the same name handwritten in five different styles. back : [Hermi, Hermi, Hermi, Hermi, Hermi]
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overall: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm)
A Hotel Continental Vigo luggage label that was part of a collection kept by Herman Silbiger in a cigar tin, capturing his family's journey through France, Spain, Jamaica (Camp Gibraltar), and Curaçao from 1942-1945.
Hotel Continental Vigo luggage label collected by a Dutch Jewish refugee