Stekler family collection

Identifier: irn634183
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn634183

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Herman Otto Stekler. An accretion was donated in 2019 by his daughter Beth Stekler.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence, receipts, report cards pertaining to the families of Walter Stekler and Gisela Schrott Stekler of Vienna, Austria and later of the United States. Also includes a mazchor, as well as tefillin (with protective bag and embroidered initials) and tallit belonging to Walter Stekler.

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Stekler family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn694104
- English
- 1911-1941
- box 1
- Updated 9 months ago
The collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Gisela (née Schrott) and Walter Stekler in Vienna, Austria and their immigration to the United States in 1938 (Walter) and 1939 (Gisela and their son Herman). Included are identification documents, education and professional records, immigration paperwork, pre-war family photographs, and correspondence. The correspondence includes pre-war and wartime letters from Gisela’s father David Schrott and other family and friends in Europe and elsewhere. Biographical material include id...
Tallit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn699843
- English
- overall: Height: 64.000 inches (162.56 cm) | Width: 19.880 inches (50.495 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Machzor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn699882
- English
- overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Tefillin with pouch
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn699892
- English
- a: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) b: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) c: Height: 7.630 inches (19.38 cm) | Width: 5.630 inches (14.3 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago

Stekler family collection

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Stekler family papers

Tallit

Machzor

Tefillin with pouch