Hochheimer Family Collection

The Hochheimer Family Collection contains documents and letters relating to the Hochheimer, Heilbronn, Schoenthal, David, Rothenberg, Neuburg, and Kaunitz families, primarily dating from the late 1930s and early 1940s.

The bulk of this collection consists of the correspondence, incoming and outgoing, of Alice and Arthur Hochheimer with family members during World War Two. Included are many letters written by Alice Hochheimer in the United States to her parents Louis and Anna Schoenthal in Germany during the early 1940s. Also present is the correspondence between Arthur Hochheimer and his parents Martha (née Neuburg) and Robert Rothenberg (stepfather) and his half sister Lotte Rothenberg. There are also letters between Alice's sister Lilli Heilbronn (née Schoenthal) and her parents and letters from Max Heilbronn to his son Salo. The collection also includes a typed travelogue of the December 1938 Atlantic crossing of Alice and Arthur Hochheimer from Germany to New York.

A typewritten July 1942 letter from Alice Hochheimer's sister Johanna (Henni) David née Schoenthal in Hannover to her family describes the difficulty and despair of Jews living in Germany. The letter has a March 16, 1943 pencil postscript from her husband, Julius David, as they are leaving on the transport to Theresienstadt. The letter was hidden and never sent, and resurfaced in the 1960s. An English translation is also found here.

The collection also includes photocopies of the following: a postcard to Henni David from A. Joersch during World War One; a letter from Moritz Hochheimer to family; photocopies of letters from the aircraft manufacturer Buecker Flugzeugbau - Berlin Germany relating to the sale of German aircraft to Dr. Alfred Hochheimer in Sao Paulo, Brazil; photocopies of the title pages and inscriptions of books removed to the LBI library; and a list of family relationships and a family tree.