Max and Ruth Levi Eis family and the Kronthal family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn526568
• English
• Updated 8 months ago

Book made to commemorate a birthday

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn61049
• English
• 1867-2010
• boxes oversize box oversize folder 6 1 1 3 negatives, 4 diskette,
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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...

• 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)
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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...