Eva Stroh Family Collection

The Eva Stroh Family Collection provides material on the lives and family history of members of the Sondheimer and Stroh families. The collection consists of numerous photos and several photo albums, family trees, official documents, correspondence, published articles and clippings and some notes, a notebook documenting cultural activities and some daily calendars.

The bulk of this collection focuses on the Sondheimers and related families. Prominent among these are the many photographs that comprise Series IV. Earlier photo albums frequently have notations identifying individuals among their pages. Basic biographical information on family members will be found in the official papers of Series I, which includes several passports and identification papers, as well as in the family trees and notes of Series III. A small amount of letters of family members is located in Series II: Correspondence. Noteworthy are the copies of letters of Martin Feist, the most extensive correspondent of the series, whose letters home document his experiences in the first World War in detail. Series V presents further biographical details in the articles on family members, including an article on the family business, Beer, Sondheimer and Co.. The folder of articles and published material on the Literaturhaus Frankfurt, an institution located in the former Sondheimer home, also mentions some facts about the family.

This collection contains a smaller amount of documentation on members of the Stroh family. Most comprehensive is the folder of official papers for family members in Series I; Oscar Stroh predominates here with a brief biography, some includes a short memoir for a cousin of Oscar Stroh as well as a poem used at the wedding of Oscar Stroh and Eva Sondheimer. An article by Leopold Stroh is located among the articles of family members in Series V.