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Title: Family Histories, 1916-2009

Predominant Dates:1933 --1945

ID: RG-16/RG-16

Primary Creator: Auslander, Sari

Other Creators: Blumenfeld, Helga, Cohen family, Cohen, Naile, Flagg, Edith (1919-), Gerard, Betti (1934-), Gumener family, Gumener, Sara, Jontoff-Hutter, Otto, Kubaschka family, Kubaschka, David, Posner family, Posner, Ralph, Posner, Sarah, Rapaport, Joseph (1922-), Talerant family, Webster, D.R.

Extent: 0.0

Arrangement:

The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by family name/creator, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.

Record group is comprised of ten collections: 1. Posner family follection; 2. Kubaschka family collection; 3. Vienna family history collection; 4. Cohen family papers; 5. Jontof-Hutter family collection; 6. Phillip Raucher collection; 7. Sari Auslander papers; 8. Leo Baeck Institute collection; 9. Gumener family collection; 10. Edith Flagg papers. RG-16.11, D. R. Webster Collection: Album of Budapest, 1944 – 1945. RG-16.12, Joseph Rapaport Collection

Subjects: Auslander, Sari, Blumenfeld, Helga, Cohen family, family histories, Flagg, Edith, Germany (Europe), Gumener family, Italian Fascism, Italy (Europe), Jewish experience, Italian, 1918 -- 1945, Jontof-Hutter family, Kubaschka family, Panenske Brezany (Czechoslovakia), Personal correspondence, Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988, Photographs, pre-Second World War, Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945, Poland (Europe), Posner family, Rapaport, Joseph, Raucher, Philip, Talerant family, Totalitarian regimes, Webster, D.R.

Languages: German, Italian, Czech, Dutch;Flemish, Polish, English

Abstract

This record group consists of multiple personal collections. Every collection comprises family documents of different facets, i.e., personal correspondence, photographs, diplomas and certificates of graduation from educational institutions, and related artifacts.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This record group through the materials of family histories embodies regional microhistories of prewar, wartime, and postwar period. For example, the Cohen family papers exemplifies the lesser-known facts of the relations between the Italian Fascist regime and the Jewish population in the early years of the Fascist regime. Overall, the families represented in this record group belonged to the Jewish middle class and were well-assimilated. Among the individual documents that stand out is a postcard written by Maria Altman in 1932. This postcard depicts the Castle in Panenske Brezany, Czechoslovakia. Once Reinhard Heidrich had been appointed the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, this castle became one of his official residences.

Materials included in this record group are personal papers, correspondence, family albums, identification documents, testimonies, and official documents. A number of these documents are digitized.

Collection Historical Note

This record group has an emphasis on regional histories through family histories. Overall, these families belonged to the Jewish middle class and were well-assimilated. Among the individual documents, a postcard written by Maria Altman in 1932 stands out. This postcard depicts the castle in Panenske Brezany, Czechoslovakia. When Reinhard Heidrich was appointed Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, this castle/palace became one of his official residences. A number of documents are digitized.

Biographical Note

Sari Auslander was born on August 14, 1910 in Poland. resided in the New Palestine Displaced Persons Camp from October 2, 1945 until December 11, 1946. On February 7, 1947, she embarked on the S.S. Ernie Pyle for the United States. She arrived on February 18, 1947 in New York. Just after she married, Sari was naturalized as a U.S. citizen on August 28, 1953.

Subject/Index Terms

Auslander, Sari
Blumenfeld, Helga
Cohen family
family histories
Flagg, Edith
Germany (Europe)
Gumener family
Italian Fascism
Italy (Europe)
Jewish experience, Italian, 1918 -- 1945
Jontof-Hutter family
Kubaschka family
Panenske Brezany (Czechoslovakia)
Personal correspondence
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Photographs, pre-Second World War
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Poland (Europe)
Posner family
Rapaport, Joseph
Raucher, Philip
Talerant family
Totalitarian regimes
Webster, D.R.

Administrative Information

Repository: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Access Restrictions: No restrictions

Use Restrictions:

Copyrighted materials, credits to and references to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust are required

Digital copies might be available upon request

Preferred Citation: RG-16, Family Histories. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Archive.

Processing Information: Materials are primarily described using the local descriptive standards of the LA Museum of the Holocaust.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Sub-Collection:

[Sub-Collection 1: RG-16.01, Posner Family Collection, 1946 -- 1980s],
[Sub-Collection 2: RG-16.02, Kubaszka Family Collection, 1933 -- 1945],
[Sub-Collection 3: RG-16.03- Family History- Vienna Collection, 1938 -- 1945],
[Sub-Collection 4: RG-16.04, Cohen Family Papers, 1927 -- 1951],
[Sub-Collection 5: RG-16.05, Jontof-Hutter Collection, 1938 -- 1946],
[Sub-Collection 6: RG-16.06, Philip Raucher Collection, 1939 -1945],
[Sub-Collection 7: RG-16.07, Sari Auslander Papers, 1946 -- 1953],
[Sub-Collection 8: RG-16.08, Family Correspondences, pre-Second World War, 1983 -- 1916],
[Sub-Collection 9: RG-16.09, Gumener Family Collection, 1916 -- 1938, 1916 -- 1938],
[Sub-Collection 10: RG-16.10, Edith Flagg Papers, 1918 -- 1999, 1918 -- 1999],
[Sub-Collection 11: RG-16.11, D.R. Webster Collection, Album of Budapest, 1944 -- 1945, 1944 -- 1945],
[Sub-Collection 12: RG-16.12, Joseph Rapaport Collection, 1942 -- 1954, 1942 -- 1954],
[Sub-Collection 13: RG-16.13, Helga Blumenfeld Papers, 1930 -- 1948, 1930 -- 1948],
[Sub-Collection 14: RG-16.14, Talerant Family Papers,],
[All]

Sub-Collection 10: RG-16.10, Edith Flagg Papers, 1918 -- 1999, 1918 -- 1999

This collection comprises documents and photographs concerning Edith Flagg (Flegenheimer), her first husband Hans Stein and her second husband Erich Simon Flagg (Flegenheimer).

Born in November 1, 1919, as Edith Faierstein in Romania, she lived in Austria and Amsterdam. She survived the Holocaust together with her second husband Erich. They were members of the Dutch Resistance. Her first husband Hans died in Auschwitz concentration camp.

After the war the couple emigrated to the United States together with their son Michael, born in 1943.

The documents are in German, Dutch, Romanian, French

RG-16.10.01. Edith Flagg personal papers

RG-16.10.01.01. Document certifying the release from military service after the First World War; 25 November 1918

RG-16.10.01.02. Certificate of German citizenship for Isidor Isaak M. Kaufmann; 17 September 1918

RG-16.10.01.03. Birth certificate for Edith Faierstein; reissued on 30 August 1976; includes translation

RG-16.10.01.04. Document in Dutch for Edith Stein

RG-16.10.01.05. Marriage certificate for Edith Faierstein and Erich Simon Flegenheimer; 28 May 1947; includes translation from 23 July 1976

RG-16.10.01.06. Dutch document for Edith Feuerstein; July 1946

RG-16.10.01.07. Receipt of application for naturalization for Edith Flegenheimer; issued by the US Department of Justice

RG-16.10.01.08. Certificate of Naturalization for Edith Flagg; issued 11 November 1954

RG-16.10.01.09. Document in Yiddish

RG-16.10.01.10. Dutch document for Edith Stein

RG-16.10.01.11. Piece of paper with numbers and writing in Yiddish on it

RG-16.10.01.12. Confirmation of entrance to a private school for sewists in Vienna; issued for Edith Faierstein on 27 October 1934

RG-16.10.01.13. Work certificate for Edith Faierstein, worked as sewist at M. Harpner, Schwarz& Co. in Vienna, issued 19 September 1937

RG-16.10.01.14. School certificate for Edith Faierstein; school for girls in Vienna; school year 1933-34; 10 February

RG-16.10.01.15. Translation of marriage certificate for Edith Faierstein and Erich Flegenheimer; 23 July 1976

RG-16.10.01.16. Certificate for Edith Feuerstein written in Romanian

RG-16.10.01.17. School certificate for Edith Faierstein; issued by the private school for sewists Vienna; 28 June 1935; includes grades

RG-16.10.01.18. School certificate for Edith Faierstein issued by the private school for sewists Vienna; 30 June 1936; includes grades

RG-16.10.01.19. Yearly school certificate for Edith Faierstein; girl’s school Vienna; school year 1933-34; 7 July 1934; includes grades

RG-16.10.01.20. School certificate for Edith Faierstein issued by the private school for sewists Vienna; 23 June 1936; includes grades

RG-16.10.01.21. School Certificate of the proficient school for sewists Vienna; issued for Edith Faierstein; 11 February 1938

RG-16.10.01.22. Diploma for Edith Faierstein from the school for sewists Vienna; completed with good success; 3 July 1936

RG-16.10.01.23. Dutch Marriage Certificate for Erich Simon Flegenheimer and Edith Faierstein; issued 30 May 1947

RG-16.10.01.24. Copy of birth certificate for Edith Faierstein; born on 1 November 1919; issued on 29 July 1924

RG-16.10.01.25. Document in Dutch for Edith Faierstein, issued on 18 April 1947

RG-16.10.01.26. Naturalization (Romania) for Osie Itic Feuerstein and his family; 4 June 1938; Document in French

RG-16.10.01.27. Document in Romanian for Edith Flagg; 8 February 1927

RG-16.10.01.28. School Certificate for Edith Faierstein confirming that she attended a course in usage of typewriters and German short writing

RG-16.10.01.29. Document in Dutch for Edith Faierstein; issued March 1946

RG-16.10.01.30. Birth certificate for Martha Faierstein; issued on 1 July 1976

RG-16.10.01.31. Notice of approval pf relative immigrant visa petition for Edith Flagg; 23 February 1977

RG-16.10.01.32. Confirmation of Naturalization for the Faierstein family; translation from Romanian; 22 July 1976

RG-16.10.01.33. Confirmation about a temporary school certificate; the original will be handed out as soon as printed; 2 July 1938

RG-16.10.01.34. School Certificate from the school of sewists Vienna for Edith Faierstein; 2 July 1938

RG-16.10.01.35. Marriage certificate for Erich Simon Flegenheimer and Edith Flegenheimer

RG-16.10.01.36. Official Dues Card of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union

RG-16.10.01.37. Document for Edith Feuerstein written in Romanian

RG-16.10.02. Erich Simon Flegenheimer personal papers

RG-16.10.02.01. Certificate of identification for Erich Flegenheimer

RG-16.10.02.02. Identity certificate for Erich Flegenheimer, 1946

RG-16.10.02.03. Document for tuberculosis checks for Pieter Feenstra

RG-16.10.02.04. Document in Dutch for Erich Flegenheimer, 29 April 1945

RG-16.10.02.05. Letter to Erich Flagg about a purchase agreement that has to be approved by the German consulate, 8 March 1999

RG-16.10.02.06. Letter to Eric Flagg about the use of remaining property in Odenheim, Germany; 13 January 1999

RG-16.10.02.07. Contract concerning the cigar factory in Heidelberg-Kirchheim; issued 19 December 1933

RG-16.10.02.08. School certificate book for Isidor Flegenheimer (Father of Erich), starts 1882

RG-16.10.02.09. Information of Eric Flagg and his life; dated July 1992

RG-16.10.03. Wartime documents

RG-16.10.03.01. Document of identification for Edith Feuerstein; ‘J’remark; Document for Alida Gertruida Voskuilen

RG-16.10.03.02. Different documents of identity for Edith Feuerstein; Edith Van Stein and Alida Gertruida Voskuilen

RG-16.10.03.03. Documents of identity for Erich Simon Flegenheimer, Pieter Fink and Pieter Feenstra

RG-16.10.03.04. Identity Card from Kromhout Motoren Fabriek in Amsterdam for Pieter Feenstra; 11 February 1943

RG-16.10.03.05. Document in Dutch for Erich Simon Israel Flegenheimer; 21 March 1941

RG-16.10.03.06. Passport for Pieter Feenstra, issued 6 August 1929. Renewed until 12 August 1943; dated 26 August 1941

RG-16.10.04. Flagg Family Photographs

RG-16.01.04.01. Picture of woman in dress and hat, taken in Bad Homburg

RG-16.10.04.02. Raymond D. Massier posing in military uniform; obviously taken in Paris; not dated

RG-16.10.04.03. Postcard of three men playing cards; text on the back; addressed to Flegenheimer in Heidelberg; beginning of the century

RG-16.10.04.04. Black and white Picture of a couple; taken in Augsburg; probably beginning of century; not dated

RG-16.10.04.05. Black and white picture of a bearded man; taken in Mannheim; maybe beginning of the century

RG-16.10.04.06. Black and white picture of a soccer team; not dated

RG-16.10.04.07. Black and white picture of a soccer team; February 1935

RG-16.10.04.08. Edith’s first husband Hans at a farm; pre-war; black and white photograph

RG-16.10.04.09. Edith and her first husband Hans; pre-war; black and white; taken in Amsterdam

RG-16.10.04.10. Edith and her son Michael; black and white; after the war

RG-16.10.04.11. Edith at a farm; pre-war; black and white

RG-16.10.04.12. Edith working on farm; pre-war; black and white

RG-16.10.04.13. Black and white picture of Edith, pre-war

RG-16.10.04.14. Edith and her first husband Hans; pre-war, black and white

RG-16.10.04.15. Black and white photograph of Erich Flegenheimer at the beach

RG-16.10.04.16. Edith’s son Michael; black and white; end of war

RG-16.10.04.17. Black and white picture of Edith’s second husband Erich

RG-16.10.04.18. Black and white photography of Edith and her first husband Hans; pre-war

RG-16.10.04.19. Black and white photograph of presumably Edith’s second husband Erich

RG-16.10.04.20. Black and white photograph of presumably Edith’s second husband Erich; pre-war

RG-16.10.04.21. Black and white photograph of a couple; taken in Augsburg; beginning of century

RG-16.10.04.22. Black and white photograph of a boy; maybe Edith’s son Michael; post war

RG-16.10.04.23. Black and white photograph of Edith’s first husband Hans in the mountains; pre war

RG-16.10.04.24. Edith working on farm; pre-war; black and white

RG-16.10.04.25. Colored photograph of the interior of a church

RG-16.10.04.26. Black and white photograph of maybe Hans Stein, pre-war

RG-16.10.04.27. Black and white photograph of maybe Hans Stein with a child on a bike; pre-war

RG-16.10.04.28. Black and white picture showing maybe Edith Flagg and Eric Flagg at the beach

Subject/Index Terms:: family histories; Flagg, Edith; wartime photographs; Identification documents

Creators:: Flagg, Edith (1919-)

Collection of Folder-Level 1: RG-16.10.01. Edith Flagg personal papers, 1918 -- 1977, 1918 -- 1977

This collection is comprised of Edith Flagg's personal documents.