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Willy Wertheimer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 798
Abstract

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence relating to his efforts as a committee chairman for tree-planting efforts in Israel. Other materials concern his genealogy and his memoirs.

Dates: 1892-1980

Wimpfheimer Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25907
Abstract

The collection holds the documents and correspondence of the Wimpfheimer family from Karlsruhe. The collection covers the Wimpfheimers’ emigration to Switzerland and later the United States as well as their restitution efforts regarding the family’s malting factory in Karlsruhe.

Dates: 1893-2016

Windner Lieberman Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25453
Abstract

The Lieberman Windner Family Collection holds papers and correspondence of Marianne Lieberman and her ancestors as well as photographs. Prominent topics are the art of Marianne Lieberman and the murder of Hedwig Windner under the Nazi euthanasia program. The collection comprises official documents and personal and official correspondence.

Dates: 1838-2011; Majority of material found within 1938-1963

Wladimir G. Eliasberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3267
Abstract

The Wladimir G. Eliasberg Collection documents the lives of the members of the Eliasberg family and to a lesser extent professional activities of Wladimir Eliasberg. The collection consists of personal correspondence, writings, vital and professional documents, and printed materials.

Dates: 1875-2003

Wolf Hamburger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 911
Abstract

The file contains various materials pertaining to the artist Wolf Hamburger.

Dates: 1914-1996

Wolf-Oppenheimer Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25665
Abstract

The Wolf-Oppenheimer Collection provides details on the lives, both personal and professional of more than three generations of members of the related Wolf and Oppenheimer families. Most prominently represented among the collection's papers are Hermann and Irene (née Oppenheimer) Wolf and their daughter Marlies (née Wolf) and Eugene Plotnik, but the papers relate to many other family members as well. The collection includes personal papers, official and educational documents, family correspondence, photographs, family trees, articles as well as personal family writing, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1843-2015

Wolfgang Roth Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6293
Abstract

The collection is primarily made up of photographs from circa 1930s-1950s of family, friends, and colleagues of the set designer Wolfgang Roth.

Dates: 1910-1960s

Wolfgang Wassermann Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6757
Abstract

This collection contains a few childhood memoirs of Wolfgang Wassermann, as well as some of his father's, the lawyer Gustav Wassermann's, diplomas and educational papers.

Dates: 1904-1935, 1992-1996

Worms Jewish Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 145
Abstract

This collection contains a original documents dating back to the 19th century, clippings and articles, correspondence, programs, pamphlets, photographs and pieces of writing relating to the Jewish community and synagogue of Worms.

Dates: 1739-2000

Wormser Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 26007
Abstract

The collection contains personal papers and belongings, photographs, and genealogical information regarding the Wormser family. To a large extent, the collection concerns the descendants of Heumann and Jette Wormser’s son Sigmund Wormser and his wife Fransika Wormser as well as their respective families.

Dates: 1722-1988; Majority of material found within 1820-1880

Writings by Elisabeth Model

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25899
Abstract

The collection holds two autobiographical writings by the artist Elisabeth Model. One work centers on her husband’s persecution by the Nazis in Amsterdam, their narrow escape with their sons Wolfe and Peter, and her sister Mali to New York, and their life in the United States. Her second work focuses on her life in relation to various places and people that impressed her. Also included are family photo albums, some correspondence, and other documents that constitute addenda to the original Elisabeth Model Collection, AR 6306.

Dates: 1930-1994; 1930-1948; 1981

Wulkan-Berger Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25947
Abstract

The collection holds the personal documents of both the Wulkan and Berger families from Vienna. While most of the documents cover the time of emigration to the United States and Kenya, the collection also holds documents on the family’s life in Vienna before World War II. Much of the correspondence was written during the 1910s, 1920s, and early 1930s.

Dates: 1848-2020; Majority of material found within 1910s-1950s

YIVO - Vilna Administration Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 1.1
Abstract

Record Group 1.1, the primary collection of records from the period when YIVO was headquartered in Vilna, reflects the wide range of activities YIVO engaged in from 1925-1941. Founded as an institute for the study of Yiddish speaking Jewry, YIVO grew to become a research institute, library, archive, and graduate program in one. The collection consists primarily of administrative material such as correspondence, financial records, minutes, reports, lists, and newspaper clippings, as well as essays and publications of the Aspirantur, Division of Youth Research, and the Economic-Statistical, Psychological-Pedagogical, and Philological sections. It incorporates material generated by the Vilna office, satellite offices in Berlin, Warsaw, and New York, and by supporters and collectors throughout Poland, Europe, and indeed the world.

Dates: 1912-1948; Majority of material found within 1925-1941

Youth Aliyah Records in the Hadassah Archives

 Collection
Identifier: I-578/RG 1
Abstract

The Youth Aliyah Records in the Hadassah Archives document Hadassah's work with multiple international organizations to rescue Jewish children from continental Europe to Palestine from 1933-1945. The collection also documents Hadassah's involvement with Youth Aliyah since 1946 in providing residential, educational, vocational, rehabilitative and therapeutic care for displaced and at-risk youth from around the world.

Dates: 1928-2009; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1998

Zickel Family Collection

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Identifier: AR 25760
Abstract

The Zickel Family Collection consists primarily of correspondence compiled in the emigration of the siblings Georg, Luise, and Anna Zickel from Nazi Germany, with the aid of their cousin Lina Factor and her husband. It also includes some documentation of biographical data about the Zickel siblings.

Dates: 1938-1992; Majority of material found within 1938-1942

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