Emmy Rosenstock Dornhelm papers, ca. 1925-1939.
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Emmy R. Dornhelm
Biographical History
Franz Otto Rothmüller was the donor's brother-in-law. He was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp following the Anschluss (Mar. 1938) in Austria. His wife secured an American visa, and they emigrated to Brooklyn, N.Y. He died at the age of 55.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Emmy Dornhelm
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Emmy Dornhelm in 1991 and 1993. They were transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives as part of the unification project and cataloged on January 23, 2009.
Scope and Content
Contains a postcard addressed to Mrs. Hermine Rothmüller in Vienna, Austria and sent by Franz Otto Rothmüller in the Dachau concentration camp. In the postcard, Franz asks his mother to go to the authorities to get him released, 1938 December The papers also include an envelope addressed to Justin Rosenstock in New York, sent by Friedl Rosenstock, the sister of Justin Rosenstock and and Emmy Dornhelm in Schweinfurt, Germany, a Deutsches Reich Reisepass belonging to Franz Otto Rothmüller (1939), and a Heimatschein for Franz Otto Rothmüller issued in Vienna in 1925.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is chronological.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Concentration camp inmates' writings--Germany--Dachau.
Genre
- Document
- Postcards.
- Stamped envelopes.