Henriette Bick Hahn papers

The collection primarily consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs documenting the Holocaust experiences of Henriette Bick Hahn and her parents Karl and Emma Bick, originally of Munich, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of documents and correspondence relating to Karl’s imprisonment in Stadelheim and Dachau after Kristallnacht. The last letter in the collection written by Karl while in Dachau is dated May 5, 1940. Other material in the collection includes Karl and Emma’s marriage certificate, identification cards and naturalization certificate of Henriette, and prewar and postwar family photographs. Henriette Bick Hahn was born Henriette Hick on June 11, 1923 in Munich, Germany to Karl and Emma Bick. Her father Karl Bick (1878-1940) was Jewish and worked as a jewelry salesman. Her mother Emma Bick (née Mutzbauer, 1879-1955) was Catholic and worked as a seamstress. They married in 1909 and had 6 children: Mitzi, Julius, Margaret, Eddie, Doris, and Henriette. Several of Henriette’s siblings immigrated to the United States before World War II. During Kristallnacht in November 1938, Karl was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Stadelheim prison before being deported to Dachau on November 25, 1938. He died in the camp on June 3, 1940. Henriette was a forced-laborer from 1941-1945. After the war, she and her mother Emma immigrated to the United States in 1947 where several of her siblings lived. Henriette met her husband in Queens and they had four children.