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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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Pappenheimer Wedding Photo

  • Format: photograph

Bea Karp with Students

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Bea Karp (Beate Stern) and Susie Stern

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Stern Family Home

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Bridesmaid

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Beate Stern (Bea Karp) Naturalization Card

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Stolpersteine Stones

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War Bundle Carried by Beate Stern (Bea Karp)

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Beate Stern (Bea Karp) at Chateau Couret

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Beate Stern (Bea Karp) at wedding of Vivette Samuel

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

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Letter from Suzanne Bardon responding to OSE request

  • Creator(s): Bardon, Suzanne
  • Format: letter

Letter Concerning Beate Stern

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Bea Karp's Questionnaire for the indemnification of victims

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Form for compensation based on French-American Agreements of 2001

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Letter from Bertha Gottlieb to Beate and Susie Stern

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

Letter from Beate and Susie Stern to Bertha Gottlieb

  • Creator(s): Karp, Bea | Stern, Susie
  • Format: letter

Letter from OSE Paris to British Red Cross

  • Format: letter

Stern Family in Lauterbach, Germany

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Moritz Stern at Desk

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Beate Stern (Bea Karp) with Grandmother

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Susie Stern and Beate Stern (Bea Karp)

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Susie Stern and Beate Stern (Bea Karp) with Uncle Siegfried

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Susie Stern

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Bea Pappenheimer (Bea Karp) and Bob Pappenheimer

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Bea Karp with Grandchildren

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Gurs Concentration Camp – Vichy France

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Letter from Susie Stern to Albert and Flora Schmidt and Bertha Gottlieb

  • Creator(s): Stern, Susie
  • Format: letter

Susie Stern's exit visa application (pink form)

  • Format: document

Suse Stern Immigration Document

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  • Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

Bea Karp's Account of Her and Susie's Location from March 1943 to July 1945

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Dedicate Memorial to Jewish Victims of 'Hitler Holocaust'

  • Creator(s): Leslie, Jerry
  • Format: document

Beate Stern Child Emigration Application

  • Source: Beatrice Pappenheimer papers, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Bea Karp Speaking at School

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Bea Karp's Children

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  • Source: My Broken Doll, page 126.

Moritz Stern with Hat

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Bea Karp and Her Daughters

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Bea Karp with Students

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Outlaw Grocery Store

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

Jeanette Gottlieb with Susie Stern and Beate Stern (Bea Karp)

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  • Source: Pappenheimer, Deborah

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

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

Letter from Senta Loewenstein to Suzy and Beate Stern containing translated letter from Flora and Albert Schmidt

  • Creator(s): Loewenstein, Senta
  • Format: letter

Letter from Susie Stern to Bertha Gottlieb

  • Creator(s): Stern, Susie
  • Format: letter

OSE form completed February 23, 1945, for Beate Stern with letter from Jean-François Guthmann attached

  • Format: document

Susie Stern Immigration Document

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  • Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

Letter to Susie and Beate Stern from Senta Loewenstein

  • Creator(s): Loewenstein, Senta
  • Format: letter

Beate Stern exit visa application

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Telegram from OSE Limoges about status of visas

  • Format: telegram

Letters of Gratitude to Bea

  • Format: book

Letter from Esther and Roewel to Bea Karp

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