Fred Strauss Family Collection
Scope and Content Note
A large portion of the collection consists of handwritten and typed personal correspondence among family and friends from the time the Strauss family emigrated through 1941, with a few pieces from 1942-1944. This correspondence includes letters to family members held at Camp de Gurs. The official documents included in the collection consist of birth, marriage, and death certificates, personal identification papers, emigration papers, and the official liquidation papers for Milian Strauss and Arthur Neu’s business GeWeBe Handelsgesellschaft für Woll- und Baumwollgewebe. The materials related to restitution include correspondence, legal papers, and financial records documenting the efforts of Jenny Strauss to claim restitution on behalf of herself and her husband for damages to career advancement and retirement benefits. Also included are several postcards and letters sent to and from Jenny Strauss' father Baruch Neu at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dates
- 1892-1966, 2003
- Majority of material found within 1939-1966
Language of Materials
The collection is in German and English.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open to researchers.
Access Information
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
Fred Ludwig Strauss was born in Lengfeld im Odenwald, Germany to the businessman Milian Strauss (1893-1964) and his wife Jenny née Neu (1896-1985). Milian Strauss was co-owner of a textile business called GeWeBe Handelsgesellschaft für Woll- und Baumwollgewebe in Frankfurt am Main. Jenny Strauss' brother, Hugo Neu, immigrated to the United States in 1930, and he filed the affidavit of support for Jenny, Milian, and their two sons to come to the United States as well. They left Frankfurt am Main in 1939. Milian's mother Fina was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942 and died there. His sister Lina and her husband Ludwig Levita were also deported, their date and place of death are unknown.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
Fred Strauss was the son of Milian Strauss (1893-1964), a textile businessman in Frankfurt am Main during the 1930s. This collection consists of the personal papers of the Strauss and Neu families. The bulk of the collection is correspondence written from 1938-1941 and restitution papers from the 1960s. Other materials include personal identification papers, vital records, and emigration papers.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged first by document type and then chronologically.
Digitization Note
The collection was digitized and made accessible in its entirety.
Processing Information
Duplicates were removed. Very brittle paper materials were placed in Mylar sleeves. Materials were rehoused into new folders where needed.
- Correspondence
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- GeWeBe Handelsgesellschaft für Woll- und Baumwollgewebe
- Genealogical tables
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
- Legal documents
- Neu family
- Neu, Baruch
- Restitution -- Germany
- Strauss family
- Strauss, Fred, 1929-
- Strauss, Milian, 1893-1964
- Textile industry
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
- Vital statistics records
- Title
- Guide to the Fred Strauss Family Collection 1892-1966, 2003 (bulk 1939-1966) AR 25127
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Leanora Lange and Margot Gerson
- Date
- © 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
- Sponsor
- Described, encoded, and digitized as part of the CJH Holocaust Resource Initiative, made possible by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
