Leonie and Ernst Steiner Collection

The collection consists primarily of vital records, official documents and educational certificates pertaining to Leonie and Ernst Steiner and his parents. There also are photographs of various family members and a few letters.

The first three folders contain the official documents of the family, arranged by person. In folder one Ernst Steiner's official documents are collected, starting with his birth certificate, followed by his high school certificate and apprenticeship as well as work certificates in chronological order. Afterwards the confirmation of his place of residence in Vienna and later France, his Declaration of Intention to immigrate to the United States, the Certificate of Naturalization, his Austrian ID card, documents about his military service and documents regarding the compensation for his persecution can be found.

Leonie and Eva Steiner's legal documents, which are located in folder two, include in chronological order Leonie's birth certificate, employer's references, certificates from training and documents about her residency in Austria and London as well as from her naturalization as an American citizen. Eva's documents include a certificate from elementary school and a note from a hospital in Vienna.

In folder three the legal documents of Olga and Jakob Steiner can be found and include engagement and birth certificates, their passports from Deutsches Reich and Certificates of Naturalization, among others.

The correspondence in folder four contains one short letter of Ernst to Leonie that he wrote during his military service. It is addressed to his wife Leonie in the Bronx. He expresses his excitement to come home after or in-between his army service in America. There are also some letters from the young Eva during her time in London to her father in America and three letters of 1941 from and to various people with an unknown relationship to the family. The content is family matters.

The photographs of the Ernst Steiner family are located in folder five, starting with portraits and other photographs of Ernst Steiner (undated, 1939, 1944), family portraits (1923, 1940, undated) and other photographs and picture postcards (undated, 1935). In folder six and the oversized folder number seven, card photography of the Jakob Steiner family and others can be found.