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Bea Karp

Bea Karp was born Beate Stern in Lauterbach, Germany in 1932. She and her family were forced from their home and transported by passenger train to internment camps in the south of France. Bea and her sister Susie were saved by the Jewish French Underground, Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), and were hidden in numerous chateaus and convents until the end of the war. They were never reunited with their parents who were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Bea arrived in the US in 1947, later settling in Omaha with her husband and four daughters. Bea spoke extensively about her Holocaust experiences with Nebraska and Iowa schoolchildren and at community gatherings. Hear Bea's testimony in her own words.


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Letter from Beate Stern to Albert and Flora Schmidt and Bertha Gottlieb, 1946

  • Date: 1946
  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea
  • Format: letter

Letter from Beate Stern to Albert and Flora Schmidt and Bertha Gottlieb, 1946

  • Date: 1946
  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea
  • Format: letter

Letter from Beate Stern to Albert and Flora Schmidt and Bertha Gottlieb, August 22, 1946

  • Date: August 22, 1946
  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea
  • Format: letter

Letter from Beate Stern to Albert and Flora Schmidt and Bertha Gottlieb, November 13, 1946

  • Date: November 13, 1946
  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea
  • Format: letter

Letter from Beate Stern to Albert and Flora Schmidt and Bertha Gottlieb, October 2, 1947

  • Date: October 2, 1947
  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea
  • Format: letter

Letter from Beate Stern to Albert and Flora Schmidt and Bertha Gottlieb, September 16, 1946

  • Date: September 16, 1946
  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea
  • Format: letter

Letter from Beate Stern to Albert and Flora Schmidt and Bertha Gottlieb, September 30, 1946

  • Date: September 30, 1946
  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea
  • Format: letter

Letter from Beate Stern to Bertha Gottlieb and Flora and Albert Schmidt, May 13, 1946

  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea
  • Format: letter

Letter from Beate Stern to Flora and Albert Schmidt

  • Date: 1945
  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea
  • Format: letter

Letter from Beate Stern to Flora and Albert Schmidt (Contemporary English Translation)

  • Date: 1945
  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea
  • Format: document

Letter from Beate Stern to OSE Paris, March 22, 1945

  • Date: March 22, 1945
  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea
  • Format: letter

Letter from Bertha Gottlieb

  • Creator(s): Gottlieb, Bertha
  • Format: letter

Letter from Bertha Gottlieb and Flora and Albert Schmidt to Siegfried and Miriam Stern

  • Creator(s): Gottlieb, Bertha | Schmidt, Flora | Schmidt, Albert
  • Format: letter

Letter from Bertha Gottlieb to American Consulate General, June 16, 1946

  • Date: June 16, 1946
  • Creator(s): Gottlieb, Bertha
  • Format: letter

Letter from Bertha Gottlieb to Beate and Susie Stern

  • Creator(s): Gottlieb, Bertha
  • Format: letter

Letter from Bertha Gottlieb to Moritz Stern, September 9, 1942

  • Date: September 9, 1942
  • Creator(s): Gottlieb, Bertha
  • Format: letter
  • Source: Beatrice Pappenheimer papers, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Letter from Bertha Gottlieb to Mrs. Haigh, October 28, 1945

  • Date: October 28, 1945
  • Creator(s): Gottlieb, Bertha
  • Format: letter

Letter from Bertha Gottlieb to Otto M. Schiff, September 3, 1946

  • Date: September 3, 1946
  • Creator(s): Gottlieb, Bertha
  • Format: letter

Letter from Bertha Gottlieb to Siegfried and Mary Stern, April 22, 1945

  • Date: April 22, 1945
  • Creator(s): Gottlieb, Bertha
  • Format: letter

Letter from Bertha Gottlieb to Siegfried and Mary Stern, June 18, 1945

  • Date: June 18, 1945
  • Creator(s): Gottlieb, Bertha
  • Format: letter

Letter from E. Masour to S. E. R. Paris, March 4, 1946

  • Date: March 4, 1946
  • Creator(s): Masour, E.
  • Format: letter

Letter from Emily Hughes to Bertha Gottlieb, December 23, 1942

  • Date: December 23, 1942
  • Creator(s): Hughes, Emily
  • Format: letter
  • Source: Beatrice Pappenheimer Papers, 1990.153, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Letter from Emily Hughes to Bertha Gottlieb, July 7, 1942

  • Date: July 7, 1942
  • Creator(s): Hughes, Emily
  • Format: letter
  • Source: Beatrice Pappenheimer Papers, 1990.153, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Letter from Ernest Kahn to Beate and Susie Stern, February 19, 1945

  • Date: February 19, 1945
  • Creator(s): Kahn, Ernest S.
  • Format: letter

Letter from Ernst Adler to C. J. Schneeman, November 30, 1955

  • Date: November 30, 1955
  • Creator(s): Adler, Ernst
  • Format: letter

Letter from Ernst Adler to Flora Schmidt, December 12, 1955

  • Date: December 12, 1955
  • Creator(s): Adler, Ernst
  • Format: letter

Letter from Ernst Adler to Flora Schmidt, November 30, 1955

  • Date: November 30, 1955
  • Creator(s): Adler, Ernst
  • Format: letter

Letter from Ernst Adler to Mortimer Michael, November 30, 1955

  • Date: November 30, 1955
  • Creator(s): Adler, Ernst
  • Format: letter

Letter from Ernst Papanek to Bea Pappenheimer, December 17, 1965

  • Date: December 17, 1965
  • Creator(s): Papanek, Ernst
  • Format: letter

Letter from Ernst Papanek to Beate Pappenheimer, December 15, 1965

  • Date: December 15, 1965
  • Creator(s): Papanek, Ernst
  • Format: letter

Letter from Esther and Roewel to Bea Karp

  • Creator(s): Esther | Roewel
  • Format: letter

Letter from Esther to Bea Karp, July 11, 1945

  • Date: July 11, 1945
  • Creator(s): Esther
  • Format: letter

Letter from Fanni Hoffman to Sofie and Markus Stern, November 1940

  • Date: November 1940
  • Creator(s): Hofmann, Fanni
  • Format: letter
  • Source: Beatrice Pappenheimer Papers, 1990.153, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Letter from Flora and Albert Schmidt to Beate and Suzy Stern, February 2, 1945

  • Date: February 2, 1945
  • Creator(s): Schmidt, Flora Gottlieb | Schmidt, Albert
  • Format: letter

Letter from Flora and Albert Schmidt to Beate and Suzy Stern, September 10, 1946

  • Date: September 10, 1946
  • Creator(s): Schmidt, Flora | Schmidt, Albert
  • Format: letter

Letter from Flora Gottlieb Schmidt (Last Page Only)

  • Date: July 1940
  • Creator(s): Schmidt, Flora Gottlieb
  • Format: letter

Letter from Flora Gottlieb Schmidt to Chateau de Chammont, July 1, 1942

  • Date: July 1, 1942
  • Creator(s): Schmidt, Flora Gottlieb
  • Format: letter

Letter from Flora Gottlieb Schmidt to Dr. Minkovsky, January 14, 1945

  • Date: January 14, 1945
  • Format: letter

Letter from Flora Gottlieb Schmidt to the Wertheimer family, May 5, 1941

  • Date: May 5, 1941
  • Creator(s): Schmidt, Flora Gottlieb
  • Format: letter

Letter from Flora Schmidt and Bertha Gottlieb to Beate and Susie Stern, September 28, 1947

  • Date: September 28, 1947
  • Creator(s): Gottlieb, Bertha | Schmidt, Flora
  • Format: letter

Letter from Flora Schmidt to the Department of State, October 25, 1948

  • Date: October 25, 1948
  • Creator(s): Schmidt, Flora
  • Format: letter

Letter from Flora Schmidt to the Office of Alien Property, October 5, 1948

  • Date: October 5, 1948
  • Creator(s): Schmidt, Flora
  • Format: letter

Letter from Germaine Dessonaz to Suzanne Bardon regarding Bea Karp, December 20, 1944

  • Date: December 20, 1944
  • Creator(s): Dessonaz, Germaine
  • Format: letter

Letter from Gerty Gross to Beate Stern (Bea Karp), August 27, 1943

  • Date: August 27, 1943
  • Creator(s): Gross, Gerty
  • Format: letter

Letter from Gerty Gross to Beate Stern, August 10, 1943

  • Date: August 10, 1943
  • Creator(s): Gross, Gerty
  • Format: letter

Letter from Ilse Windmueller to Bertha Gottlieb about Bea and Susie Stern, January 25, 1946

  • Date: January 25, 1946
  • Creator(s): Windmueller, Ilse
  • Format: letter

Letter from Ilse Windmueller to Grossman, May 29, 1945

  • Date: May 29, 1945
  • Creator(s): Windmueller, Ilse
  • Format: letter

Letter from Isaac L. Asofsky to Bertha Gottlieb, November 23, 1943

  • Date: November 23, 1943
  • Creator(s): Asofsky, Isaac L.
  • Format: letter
  • Source: Beatrice Pappenheimer Papers, 1990.153, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Letter from Jeanette Gottlieb and Hildegard Gottlieb

  • Creator(s): Gottlieb, Jeanette | Gottlieb, Hildegard
  • Format: letter

Letter from Jeanette Gottlieb and Siegfried Gottlieb, April 22, 1945

  • Date: April 22, 1945
  • Creator(s): Gottlieb, Jeanette | Gottlieb, Siegfried
  • Format: letter
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