Rosenbacher-Wasserman Collection
Scope and Contents
The file contains personal documents and photographs pertaining to Rosenbacher-Wasserman family.
Folder 1 contains personal documents pertaining to the Rosenbacher family, the Eger family, and the Wassermann family, including four family trees, Moses Isaac Oppenheimer’s last will, Paul Rosenbacher’s death certificate, diaries, and lectures.
Folder 2 contains the personal documents of Emmy Rosenbacher from her life in Germany and Palestine/Israel, such as her matriculation report, university documents, naturalization documents, army documents, letters, and reminiscences about the above-mentioned families.
Folders 3-4 contains photographs of Emmy Rosenbacher, Gretta Rosenbacher, Paul Rosenbacher, Lily Wassermann, Oscar Wassermann(?) and other unknown members of the two families. Most of the photos are portraits and some are family photos. Also included in the collection a photo album of a house in Germany, including mostly indoors photos.
Dates
- undated, 1839-1980
Language of Materials
The collection is in German.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
The collection has been digitized.
Biographical / Historical
Emmy Rosenbacher was born in Hamburg in 1900, daughter to Paul and Gutta Rosenbacher. She received a PhD from the Hamburg University in 1930 and migrated to Palestine in 1937, where she worked at Bezalel Museum, the Bialik Institute and the Hebrew Universoty of Jerusalem.
Extent
4 Folders
Abstract
The collection contains personal documents and photographs pertaining to Rosenbacher-Wasserman family.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in two series.
- Series I: Personal Documents; 1882-1980
- Series II: Photographs; 1912-1980, undated
- Author
- Processed by Meirav Reuveny
- Date
- © 2020
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
