Vera Vogue collection
Scope and Content Note
E-copies of vital records, photographs and clippings pertaining to Vera Gutmann. Also included are gloves.
Dates
- 1896-2016
Creator
- Stevens, Susan (Person)
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
Vera Gutmann née Friedmann was born in 1910 in Breslau, Germany to Adolf and Lotte Friedmann. At age 19 she married Kurt Rosenthal, who died in Berlin during Nazi imposed slave labor. Vera survived the Holocaust in hiding in Berlin, together with her mother. They immigrated to the US in 1946, joining Vera’s brother Hans Freeman in Chicago. She married John Gutmann, and they moved to Carmel, CA, where she opened a glove business, 'Vera Vogue'. She died in 1986.
Extent
32 Digital Files
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
E-copies of vital records, photographs and clippings pertaining to Vera Gutmann. Also included are gloves.
Separated Material
A pair of gloves from Vera Vouge's glove business, 'Vera Vogue', are housed in the LBI Arts and Objects Collection.
- Title
- Guide to the Vera Vogue collection, 1896-2016 AR 25724
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2017
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- June 2017: dao links for Item 31, Item 32, and Item 33 added.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
