Max Jacobson Family Collection

This collection contains Max Jacobson's family papers, as well as a substantial number of materials related to the Jacobson family's internment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp and to Max Jacobson's life as a displaced person in Germany in 1945.

Materials in the first folder consist largely of vital documents, personal papers, and correspondence of both Jacobson family members as well as their relations in the Michaelis and Wertheim/Werthan families. Some of the materials attest to the family's livelihood as shopkeepers, including photographs of family-owned storefronts in Rotenburg and Göttingen. A couple of items relate to Max Jacobson's military service, both in the late 19th century as well as in the first World War.

Several items attest to the persecutions the family endured under the Nazi regime, especially to the family's internment in Theresienstadt. Among these are identification cards, Lagergeld, and some of Max Jacobson's writings, including 10 pages of diary entries he appended to his mother's 19th century Poesiealbum while interned in Theresienstadt. A handful of items, including an Opfer des Faschismus identification card and correspondence with authorities, documents Jacobson's life in Germany in 1945-1946 after being liberated from internment.