Max and Ruth Levi Eis family and the Kronthal family collection

Identifier: irn47502
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47502

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Regina Lackner, the daughter of Max and Ruth Levi Eis.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a wreath, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Max Eis and his family in Mainz, Germany, before the Holocaust, in Theresienstadt labor camp-ghetto during the Holocaust, and after their respective immigrations to the United States and also to the experiences of the Levi and Kronthal families in Mainz and Breslau, Germany, before the Holocaust, in several concentration camps during the Holocaust, and after their respective immigrations to the United States.

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Handmade storybook
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn526568
- English
- Updated 8 months ago
Book made to commemorate a birthday
Levi, Kronthal, and Eis families papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn61049
- English
- 1867-2010
- boxes oversize box oversize folder 6 1 1 3 negatives, 4 diskette,
- Updated 8 months ago
The Levi, Kronthal, and Eis family papers document the family of Sali Levi, last rabbi of the old Jewish community of Mainz, as well as the families of his wife Margarete Levi, nee Weissmann, his sister-in-law Rosa Kronthal, his son Hans Levi, and his son-in-law Max Eis. The collection contains biographical materials, correspondence, subject files, photographs, sermons, writings, speeches, and books documenting the lives of the Kronthal, Levi, and Eis families as they were forced to flee Germany and immigrate to the United States during the Holocaust. Biographical materials date from 1867-c...
Oak leaf wreath separated into sections awarded prewar to a Jewish youth for swimming across the Rhine River
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn61051
- English
- a: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 9.125 inches (23.178 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Oak leaf wreath with acorns, now in several pieces, awarded to Max Eis in the mid-1930’s for swimming across the Rhine River near the town of Mainz, Germany, where he lived with his parents, Jakob and Regina, and his brother, Albert. Max and Alfred participated in athletic competitions as members of the Mainz chapter of the Jewish sports club, Schild, which was associated with Reichsbund Juedischer Frontsoldaten (The Organization of Jewish Front-line Soldiers), an organization founded by Jewish veterans in 1919 to counter anti-Semitic accusations that Jewish soldiers had been weak and cowar...

Max and Ruth Levi Eis family and the Kronthal family collection

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Handmade storybook

Levi, Kronthal, and Eis families papers

Oak leaf wreath separated into sections awarded prewar to a Jewish youth for swimming across the Rhine River