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Hess family

 Family

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Arno Herzberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25299
Abstract

The collection consists almost entirely of newspaper clippings of Arno Herzberg’s articles. The articles deal with the Jewish situation in Germany in the 1930s, Israel and her problems with the outside world, Jewish holidays, and a small amount of articles dealing with economic issues, such as taxes. Other materials include a small amount of correspondence, manuscripts (all the manuscripts are photocopies lacking any annotations or remarks), and a memoir depicting the Hess family members between 1930 and the 1940s, including their imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Dates: 1930s-1992

Heinrich and Hulda Schwab Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25694
Abstract

The Heinrich and Hulda Schwab family collection contains a small number of family papers pertaining to them and their daughter Ilse. The majority of the collection consists of photographs including family portraits and photographs from trips around central Europe in the 1920s.

Dates: 1927-1971; Majority of material found within 1927-1938

Ida and Nathan Hess Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25426
Abstract

This collection contains materials related to Hildegard Hess and to the Hess family. Included is correspondence between Hildegard, Arnulf, and Louis Hess and their parents, Ida and Nathan Hess, during the early years of World War Two. Other materials include a four-part epistolary narrative of the 1940 journey of Arnulf Hess and his family to Bolivia, via Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Costa Rica. The collection also contains additional correspondence, official documents, genealogical tables, and photographs. Much of the German material has English translations.

Dates: 1860s-1999; Majority of material found within 1920s-1949

Michael Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 21
Abstract

This collection consists of various materials pertaining to the Michael family in particular to Jacob Joseph Michael's (1882- ) efforts to write a family history covering the years 1600 to 1951.

Dates: 1891-1980