Kroner Family Collection
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of documents, photographs, clippings, ephemera pertaining to three generations of the Kroner family from Berlin, Germany.
Dates
- 1872-1940, 2000
Creator
- Segal, Hannah Kroner (Person)
Language of Materials
The collection is in German with some English.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.
Biographical Note
Moritz Kroner was a physician and decorated German officer in the wars of 1866, 1870-1871 and 1914-1918. In 1871 he got married to Emilie Frenckel. Moritz Kroner died on April 18, 1922.
Moritz Kroner’s son Eugen, born 1873, was a Berlin merchant, co-owner of Wolff and Kroner. He managed to escape with his family to the United States in 1939.
Eugen Kroner’s daughter Hannah was a ballet dancer, who studied with the Ballett-Schule Terpis-Arco and performed for the Juedischer Kulturbund in Berlin.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet
Abstract
The collection consists of documents, photographs, clippings, ephemera pertaining to three generations of the Kroner family from Berlin, Germany.
Acquisition Information
Donated by Segal, Hannah Kroner
Separated Material
Photographs were removed to the LBI Photo Collection.
Books were removed to the LBI Library.
Military decorations were removed to the LBI Art and Objects Collection.
- Title
- Guide to the Kroner Family Collection 1872-1940, 2000 AR 25332
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Yakov Illich Sklar
- Date
- © 2011
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
- Sponsor
- funding made possible by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Revision Statements
- July 23, 2012 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
