Jewish families

The Julius and Elisabeth Hirsch Collection holds the papers of this couple, with much of the collection consisting of family correspondence. Prominent subjects include the immigration of family members and genealogy of the family. In addition to extensive correspondence and family trees the collection includes notebooks, essays and articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, early drafts of Julius Hirsch's family memoir, and research notes.

The Lucie and Herbert Hanauer Family Collection documents significant events in the lives of the dentist Herbert Hanauer, his wife Lucie and their family members, including members of both the Hanauer and Wolf branches of the family. The most prominent topic is the couple's immigration to the United States. Personal correspondence constitutes most of the collection, but it also contains professional correspondence, official documents used in immigration, educational documents, and a few other personal papers.

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.