Brandstaetter family papers

Identifier
irn45440
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.490.1
  • 2023.4
Dates
1 Jan 1931 - 31 Dec 1980
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Hebrew
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn45440

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Brandstaetter family

Biographical History

Salomon Brandstaetter was born on 23 April 1918 in Brzesko, Poland, to Schulim and Malke (née Sterngast) Brandstätter. Estera Freidenreich was born on 24 December 1914 in Będzin, Poland, to Naftali and Idesa (née Szwarc) Freidenreich (variant spelling: Frajdenrajch). They were married on 12 April 1940 in Lwów, Poland, and had two children: Ida (born 20 June 1943, Dobczyce, Poland) and Schulim (born 28 November 1946, Munich). After surviving the Holocaust in Poland, the Brandstaetters ended up in displaced persons camps in Germany following the war, and immigrated to the United States in 1947.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Barbara Bass

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Barbara Bass, the daughter of Salomon and Estera Brandstaetter.

Scope and Content

Documents pertaining to the family of Salomon and Estera Brandstaetter, originally of Brzesko and Będzin, Poland. Includes birth certificates for Salomon (issued in Brzesko 1936) and Estera (issued in Będzin, 1980), school certificates for Salomon (1931 and 1935), a ketubah, documenting the wedding of Salomon and Estera in Lwów, Poland (12 April 1940), an envelope that formerly contained a letter (not extant), sent by Salamon’s mother, Malka Brandstaetter to her brother, Arnold, in New York (1941), a certificate issued by the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community in Munich, attesting to the validity of the marriage of Salomon and Estera (1947); certificates of identity in lieu of a passport, for Salomon and Estera, issued by the United States Consulate in Munich (1947), and a receipt for ship’s passage on the S.S. Ernie Pyle (1947).

People

  • Brandstaetter, Estera.
  • Brandstaetter, Salomon.

Corporate Bodies

  • Ernie Pyle (Ship)

Subjects

  • Jews--Poland--Będzin.
  • Brzesko (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
  • Będzin (Poland)
  • Jewish refugees--Germany--Munich.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Jews--Poland--Brzesko.

Genre

  • Document
  • Receipts.
  • Certificates.
  • Ketubah.
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