Hilde Friedmann Collection

This collection contains personal papers of Hilde née Friedmann and her immediate family members. Included are vital records, official documents, correspondence, restitution materials, and photographs. Folder 1 contains identification cards of Hilde Friedmann, her father Solomon Friedmann, and her daughter Ruth Wagener. The vital and official documents in folder 2 include birth, marriage, and death certificates, emigration documents, and a burial plot deed. Hilde’s stepdaughter Sherry (alternatively Shirley) Schacht née Berger and her husband initiated restitution claims in the 1990s for the land and home owned by Solomon and Ida Friedmann in Römhild, Germany. Materials related to these claims are included in folder 3. The correspondence in folder 4 includes postcards sent to Hilde Friedmann during World War I as well as a few letters from family from the 1940s-1970s. The ephemera includes a song book from a 1949 wedding, a calendar, and information on a Kibbutz. The family photographs depict Hilde Friedmann, her parents, her brother Ludwig Friedmann, her daughter Ruth Wagener, her second husband Michael Werbel, her third husband Louis Berger, and her stepchildren in formal and informal poses ranging from around 1900 to the 1990s. The unidentified photographs range from the 1860s to the 1960s and seem to depict other relatives and friends. They include formal albumen prints on cardboard mounts, black and white photographs on paper, one tintype, and several picture postcards.