Lewald, Löwenstein, Nachmann and Rothschild Family Collection

The Lewald, Löwenstein, Nachmann and Rothschild Family Collection documents the genealogy of these four related families and includes mostly official documents such as passports, birth, marriage and death certificates, as well as personal papers such as family registers and memorial books. With the help of the papers one can trace back the genealogy of some family members to the 19th century, thus including papers of family members which are not mentioned in the biographical note (mostly information about family relationships, the date of birth, etc.). Nonetheless, the collection places emphasis on the period before and during World War II.

The papers are arranged in five folders and one oversized folder. The folders shed light on basic information about the members of the various families (name, date of birth, date of death, family relations). One can find information about the Rothschild family in folders 4 and 5, about the Löwenstein family in folder 3 and the oversized folder, about the Lewald family in folders 1, 2 and 4 as well as in the oversized folder and about the Nachmann family in folders 2 and 3.

A secondary theme encountered in the collection is the death of family members during World War II and the migration of other family members to the United States. The papers contain little information on the deportation of Stephan Lewald (Folder 2) and the death of Henry Rothschild (Folder 5), as well as on the immigration of Irma Lewald family (Folder 2) and the Rothschild family (Folder 5).

Another topic of the collection is the book Reflections by Jewish Survivors from Mannheim, edited by Robert B. Kahn, which has been removed to the LBI Library. One can find newspaper clippings regarding this book in folder 1. In addition to that, the folder contains a clipping about the Jewish graveyard in Laupheim, Germany and genealogical notes about the Lewald family.

The photographs folder contains an image of the grave sit of Betty Rothschild's mother Netty Eichtersheimer and a portrait of a woman whom one cannot clearly identify.