Wolman family collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Robert Wolman
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rita Wolman Stern and Deborah Wolman Rosen
Rita Wollman Stern and Deborah Wollman Rosen donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on August 4, 2008 with the assistance of Rita's son Fredric Stern.
Scope and Content
Consists of family documents related to the Wollman (Wolman) family, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Includes the pre-war passport of Robert (Sam) Wolman, who emigrated to the United States in 1924, as well as correspondence with the family who remained in Poland. Includes written vignettes about life in the United States and in Poland, as well as correspondence from the late 1930s about getting aid from relief committees and about helping the Mandelsberg family (who were Polish and living in Berlin) with their immigration paperwork.
People
- Wolman, Benjamin.
- Wolman, Robert.
Subjects
- Berlin (Germany)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Emigration and immigration--United States.
Genre
- Document
- Passport.