Abraham M. Neumann family collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Abraham M. Neumann, father of Helen Neuman Berger (donor), collected the materials over the span of his life. The collection became the possession of Gertrude Neumann, wife of Abraham Neumann, at the time of his death in Jan. 1989. One year later, Gertrude Neumann gave the collection to her daughter, Helen Neuman Berger. Helen Neuman Berger and her husband, Paul Berger, donated the materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Aug. 15, 1997. Helen N. Berger provided the inventory and preliminary description for the collection at the time of donation.
Scope and Content
Contains certificates, legal documents, identification documents, travel documents, menus, postcards, Reisepasse, school report cards, letters, booklets, and photographs relating to the life of Abraham M. Neumann and the Neumann and Kuerschner families in Warsaw, Poland, and Vienna, Austria, and the emigration of several family members to the United States.
System of Arrangement
Organized into the following series: RG-10.15301, Papers, 1907-1941 (5 folders) and RG-10.15302, Photographs, 1860-1953 (2 folders) Arrangement within each series is generally chronological
People
- Kuerschner family.
- Neumann family.
- Neumann, Abraham M. (Abraham Mordecai)
Subjects
- Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
- Poland--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews, Austrian--United States.
- Jews, Polish--United States.
- Austria--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Identification cards.
- Postcards.
- Photographs.
- Report cards.
- Menus.
- Letters.
- Document