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Title: Jenny Kamnitzer papers
Identifier/Call Number: 1988.1286
Contributing Institution:
Tauber Holocaust Library
Language of Material:
Multiple languages
Container: Archives Box 5
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder(s)
Date (inclusive): 1939-1947
Abstract: This collection comprises documents relating to the emigration of a German Jew, Jenny Kamnitzer, from Nazi Germany to Shanghai,
China in 1940, and her subsequent emigration to the United States in 1947.
Creator:
Kamnitzer, Jenny
Related Archival Materials note
There are numerous collections in the Tauber Holocaust Library’s archives which document the experiences of German and Austrian
Jews who lived in Shanghai during the war years. Consult archivist for more information.
The collection is comprised of documents relating to the wartime experiences of Jenny Kamnitzer, a German Jew who fled Nazi
Germany for the relative safety of Shanghai, China, including her stay in Shanghai during the war years, and her successful
emigration from Shanghai to San Francisco after World War II.
The collection documents the experience of German and Austrian Jews forced to flee from Germany and Austria during Hitler’s
Third Reich. Denied admittance to most countries, thousands of German and Austrian Jews found their way to Shanghai, where
visas and passports were not required until the Japanese occupation. After 1941, the occupying Nazi-aligned Japanese ghettoized
the Jewish refugees in Shanghai into an area known as the Shanghai Ghetto.
Jenny Kamnitzer was born in Langen, Germany on July 13, 1880. In 1940, when she emigrated to Shanghai, she was living in Hamburg.
Papers in the collection indicate that Siegfried Kamnitzer (date of birth July 26, 1908), donor of the papers, left Germany
for Shanghai in 1939; it is likely that Mrs. Kamnitzer followed him there. In 1941, while living in Shanghai, Mrs. Kamnitzer
began the process of applying for emigration to the United States. She was admitted to the United States in San Francisco,
California on March 19, 1947.
Jenny Kamnitzer papers, 1939-1947, Tauber Holocaust Library - JFCS Holocaust Center, San Francisco, California
The Jenny Kamnitzer papers were donated to the Holocaust Center of Northern California by Mr. Siegfried Kamnitzer.
There are no restrictions to use for this collection.
Conditions Governing Access note
There are no restrictions to access for this collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Kamnitzer, Siegfried
Immigration records
Jewish refugees -- China -- Shanghai
Jews, German -- Migrations
Jews, German -- Shanghai -- Migrations
Passports
Shanghai (China) -- Emigration and immigration
United States -- Emigration and immigration
Women immigrants -- United States
Women refugees -- Shanghai