Ullmann Family Collection

The collection contains primarily correspondence (Series I) by members of the Ullmann family.

Subseries 1 consists of letters mostly written by Kaete [Katharina] Ullmann (née Nathanson), her husband Adolf Ullmann and his sister Minna Ullmann and were sent from Berlin to Kaete and Adolf's children Hans, Hanna Ida, and Walter Ullmann in Palestine.

The letters reflect the situation of Jews in Berlin and daily life under the national socialist regime.

Subseries 2 includes correspondence of Hans Ullmann and other family members with various people. Most of the letters (especially after November 1938) document Hans Ullmann's efforts to assist his parents and aunt in escaping Germany (including correspondence with "Jewish Agency", "Hitachdut Olei Germania"). Other letters pertain to the deportation of Kaete, Adolf and Minna Ullmann (e.g. goodbye letter of Kaete Ullmann to her brother Albert Nathanson), and to their murder by the Nazis presumably in Auschwitz in 1943.

The correspondence of Hans Ullmann after 1945 includes letters pertaining to a trial against National Socialist Theodor Kohlrusch. It also contains a letter (handwritten (carbon copy), 31 pp.) and other materials by Hans Ullmann about the family history, other materials pertaining to the history of the Ullmann family in Altkarbe (Neumark) and factory for paper manufacture. In addition, the subseries consists of correspondence of Hans Ullmann with the LBI Jerusalem pertaining to the donation of materials.

Series II consists of mixed materials including two texts by Hans Ullmann, titled "Konzentrationslager Sonnenburg" (typescript, 9 pp.) about his experiences as prisoner in the concentration camp, and the short article "I Remember Summer 1914" (typescript, 3 pp.), as well as documents pertaining to the factory for paper manufacture of the Ullmann family.