Gertrude Laufer collection

The Gertrude Laufer collection include an identification card and a letter. The identification card (Foreigners' Resident Certificate) was issued to Gertrude Brück upon her arrival in Shanghai in 1939 from Vienna. The letter written by Margarethe Braun Mittler (Gertrude Laufer’s aunt) from the ghetto in Opole, Poland to a friend in Vienna, Austria, in November 1941 and describes the poor health and subsequent death of her mother. Margarethe was born in 1901 and is believed to have perished in 1942 in the Belzec or Sobibor killing centers in Poland.