Dimon-Kurrein Family Collection

The Dimon-Kurrein Family Collection includes documents on the Kurrein family in folder 1. It contains undated photographs of several family members. Some documents refer to Max Kurrein's father, Adolf Kurrein, including a birth certificate, school certificates and a résumé. Outstanding is the correspondence of an unknown family member with Theodor Herzl about the first Zionist Congress, dated in 1897. The folder also includes a clipping of donations the family made to the Jewish National Fund to contribute to the Jewish settlements in Palestine.

Folder 2 contains Max Kurrein's documents. Most of the material consists of articles about him, describing his work as a professor and metallurgist in Israel. Early correspondence with his wife Charlotte Kurrein refers to the daily life of the couple in 1917, while she studied in Berlin and he was deployed as a soldier in Vienna. The folder includes invitations for several of Max Kurrein's birthdays. A photo album holds pictures of the Kurrein siblings Max, Isidor and Herbert as children, as soldiers during World War I, and as young men, as well as Max Kurrein as professor in Israel in the 1950s.

Folder 3 contains Charlotte Kurrein's official documents and correspondence. An enrollment book for the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin documents the classes she took in mathematics and physics in 1914. A university certificate from 1918, a driver's license, issued in Berlin in 1931, and an Israeli passport are included as well. Several photographs show her as a child, as a young woman together with her classmates at her graduation in 1918, and together with her brother Rudolf Kurrein. The included family correspondence mostly refers to the 1930s and describes the preparations for the family's emigration to Palestine and the United States.

Folder 4 holds several 19th century wills that refer to the extended Blau family, namely Solomon Simon Landsberger and his wife Sophie Landsberger from 1835, and two wills of the merchant Josef Mendel Bramson and his wife Nathalie Bramson from 1857 and 1871. It also includes a certificate of insurance of a Blau family member, issued in 1847.

The Dimon family folder contains mostly family correspondence, mainly letters from Ina Dimon's grandmother Bertha Blau, who wrote about her preparation during the 1930s for her emigration to the United States. A second correspondence between Ina Dimon and a professor of history, Dr. Harriet Freidenreich, who conducted research on higher education of women in the twentieth century, contains information about Charlotte Kurrein and her studies.

A biographical essay written by Ina Dimon is held in folder 6. It describes Ina Dimon's early childhood in Berlin before emigration, her arrival and her schooling in Palestine. Moreover, the essay refers to Max and Charlotte Kurrein, their childhood and education. Attached are photos of their house in Berlin and documents regarding to the described persons. Another chapter of the essay describes Chanoch Dimon's childhood in Berlin and England, and the survival of his parents, hidden at the sailor club "Freie Vereinigung der Tourensegler Grünau 1898 e.V.". A correspondence between Ina Dimon and the sailor club is attached to the essay.

Folder 7 contains material about the Loewe family; the main part is a Hebrew correspondence between Raphael Loewe and Ina Dimon, who are both descendants of the Loewe family and got in touch in 1994. Included with the correspondence are several family trees that show the connection between the families and their shared ancestors. The folder includes undated photographs of Louis Loewe and other Loewe family members.

Unrelated clippings about the salaries of officials, the costs of living, Hebrew scholars in 19th Century England and a paper print of an online article on Caroline Marcus (née Fischl) are held in folder 'other'.