Margot Gerson Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection includes theater programs, clippings, a company history, and a few personal documents and papers pertaining to the maternal relatives of Margot Gerson née Horwitz, including the Stern family (especially the opera singer Frieda Ernesti (Lachmann-Stern), the Hess/Hessdörffer families, and the Schiff family.
The Hess/Hessdörffer family chronicle and tree provides useful information on the linkages between these individuals and families. Of particular note is the small collection of theatrical programs and clippings pertaining to Frieda Lachmann Stern's (stage name Frieda Ernesti) career, which included several engagements at the German front during World War I.
Dates
- 1890-2003
Creator
- Gerson, Margot (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German and English.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
Margot Gerson's mother, Erna Horwitz-Stern (1890-1951), was born in Aschaffenburg and lived in Berlin. Her siblings included Annie Stern (later Schiff), Frieda Lachmann-Stern, and Otto Stern, a banker in Switzerland and Paris who died in World War I.
Margot Gerson's aunt, Frieda Lachmann-Stern, studied in Prague and Vienna and became a notable opera singer under the stage name Frieda Ernesti, sometimes Frieda Lachmann-Ernesti. Her engagements included: Deutsches Landestheater Prague, Stadtheater Kiel, Fronttheater der 1. Armee during World War I, Rostock. She married Julian Lachmann, emigrated to Great Britain and later to the United States, where she died in 1950.
Extent
9 Folders (+ 1 OS)
Abstract
This collection includes theater programs, clippings, a company history, and a few personal documents and papers pertaining to the maternal relatives of Margot Gerson née Horwitz, including the Stern family (especially the opera singer Frieda Ernesti (Lachmann-Stern), the Hess/Hessdörffer families, and the Schiff family.
Separated Material
Photographs removed to the Photograph Collection.
Clippings in this collection are photocopies; original clippings have been removed to rare archives stacks, R38.
- Aschaffenburg (Germany)
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Deutsches Landestheater (Prague)
- Economic history
- Ernesti, Frieda
- Fulda (Germany)
- Genealogical tables
- Genealogy
- Gerson, Margot
- Hesdörfer, Carl, 1868-
- Heßdorf (Germany)
- Horwitz-Stern, Erna, 1890-1951
- Lachmann, Julian
- Ledgers (account books)
- Levy, Erna H., 1890-1951
- Photographs
- Spier, Zacharias
- Stadttheater (Kiel)
- Städtische Bühnen (Rostock)
- Theater programs
- Weidenmann, Adolf
- Wickrathberg (Germany)
- Wickrather Lederfabrik, Vormals Z. Spier
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Art and the war
- Title
- Guide to the Margot Gerson Collection, 1890-2003 AR 6146
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff and Timothy Ryan Mendenhall
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- September 27, 2011 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
