Nussbaum-Koch family collection
Extent and Medium
boxes
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Milton Koch donated his family's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Apr 11, 2003.
Scope and Content
Consists of correspondence, passports, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other documentation of the Nussbaum and Koch families of Luxembourg. Includes papers and photographs related to Albert Nussbaum, who had worked with refugees in Luxembourg before working for the Transmigration Bureay of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Lisbon, then emigrating to the Dominican Republic; and to Gustav Nussbaum, Helene Kleinberg Nussbaum, Marguerite (Martha) Koch, and Rene Nussbaum.
System of Arrangement
The collection is organized into four series: 10.25501: Documents relating to Gustav Nussbaum and Helene Kleinberg Nussbaum, 1897-1950. 10.25502: Documents relating to Albert Nussbaum, 1903-1972. 10.25503: Documents relating to Max Koch and Martha Nussbaum Koch, 1929-1967. 10.25504: Documents relating to René Nussbaum, 1920-1941. 10.25505: Nussbaum Family Correspondence, 1922-1929. 10.25506: Hand drawn dress catalog from the clothing business of the Nussbaum family in Luxembourg, before 1940. 10.25507: Miscellaneous. 10.25508: Photographs.
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Luxembourg.
- Lisbon (Portugal)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
- Passports.