Walter Feibelman papers
Extent and Medium
folders
10
Creator(s)
- Walter A. Feibelman
Biographical History
Walter Feibelman (1925-2004) was born Walter Feibelmann in Berlin to Bernhard Feibelmann (1888-?) and Dora Metzger Feibelmann (1892-1963). He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1941. His sister, Miriam Yogev, settled in Jerusalem. Walter’s aunt and uncle Addi and Otto Feibelmann were deported to Łódź in 1941 and perished. His aunt Emma Feibelman Klein was deported to Majdanek in 1942 and perished. Walter became an astronomer and discovered Saturn’s E Ring.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Walter Feibelman
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Walter Feibelman donated the Walter Feibelman papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996, 1997, and 1998. The accessions previously numbered 1997.A.0183 and 1998.21 have been incorporated into this collection.
Scope and Content
The Walter Feibelman papers consist of biographical materials and subject files documenting the Feibelmann family’s life in Berlin, immigration to the United States, and postwar search for their lost relatives. Biographical materials include military records documenting Bernhard Feibelmann’s World War I service, Walter’s student records, his parents’ passports, and tracing documents following Otto and Addi Feibelmann and Emma Klein. Subject files include a photograph of the Theodor Herzl Schule, Hamburg- American Line records about the Feibelmanns’ passage to America, ration tickets for bread, two empty envelopes, and Walter’s personal memories of his childhood in Berlin and immigration to America, "Some Personal Recollections of the Years 1933-1941."
System of Arrangement
The Walter Feibelman papers are arranged as 2 series: I. Biographical materials, 1917-1949, II. Subject files, 1939-1993 (bulk 1939-1941)
People
- Walter A. Feibelman
Subjects
- Jews--Germany--Berlin.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1914-1918--Veterans.
- Jewish refugees--United States.
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Document
- Passports.
- Photographs.
- Personal narratives.