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Title: Wachsner Family Collection, 1900-1946
Predominant Dates:1900 -- 1939
ID: RG-50/RG-50
Primary Creator: Wachsner Family (1900 -- 1939)
Other Creators: Fritz Wachsner (1900 -- 1939), Marianne Meyerhoff (1939 -- present-day)
Extent: 1.0 Boxes
Subjects: Correspondence in German language, Documents in German language, Educational documents, German, 1900 -- 1939, Family correspondence, Wachsner family, Family history, records, Family History, Wachsester, Fritz Wachsner, personal correspondence, German imperial army, 1900 -- 1918, Germany (1900 -- 1939), Germany, history, Jewish soldiers, German Imperial Army (WWI), Jewish teachers in Germany, 1900 -- 1940, Jews in Germany, history and integration, Personal correspondence, soldiers, German, the First World War, teachers and teaching, Germany
Forms of Material: Jews of Germany, History of Weimar Republic and early Nazi Germany, narrative
Languages: German
This collection includes official documents from turn of the century Germany; the correspondence is related to family affairs through the course of the 20th century and the photo-documents encompass the 19th-20th centuries.
RG-50.01, FRITZ WACHSNER COLLECTION
RG-50.01.01, Correspondence
RG-50.01.01.01, Letter 2 from Fritz’s tutor.
Language: German
Date: 30 September 1900
RG-50.01.01.02, Letter from Sophien-Gymnasium telling Fritz that he passed his exams and will leave soon.
Language: German
Date: 30 June 1903
RG-50.01.01.03, Letter to Fritz from his Uncle Joseph and Henrietta.
Language: German
Date: 2 July 1904
RG-50.01.01.04, Letter from Fritz’s tutor about his improvement.
Language: German
Date: 11 August 1905
RG-50.01.01.05, Postcard to Fritz from his cousin Ismar.
Language: German
Date: 7 July 1903
RG-50.01.01.06, Letter to Fritz telling him that he must pay to take his exams to acquire his doctorate by a certain date.
Language: German
Date: 28 October 1910
RG-50.01.01.07, Letter from Fritz describing his teaching experience.
Language: German
Date: June 1911
RG-50.01.01.08, Letter to Fritz from the curator of the Saxonian University.
Language: German
Date: 2 June 1911
RG-50.01.01.09, Discharge, letter stamped by compensation commission.
Language: German
Date: 28. [illegible, after June] 1911
RG-50.01.01.10, Letter about Fritz joining the army.
Language: German
Date: 15 October 1911
Location: Berlin
RG-50.01.01.11, Letter to Fritz from Paul S.
Language: German
Date: 4 May 1914
RG-50.01.01.12, Letter to Fritz with multiple handwritings, it follows Lotte’s death and offers condolences.
Language: German
Date: 26 April 1915
RG-50.01.01.13, Two letters written on the same paper, but with different handwriting to Fritz. Penmanship is illegible.
Language: [presumably] German
Date: 17 August 1915
RG-50.01.01.14, Letter from Fritz to his aunt and uncle. He’s talking about a package they sent him and other news.
Language: German
Date: 30 November 1915
RG-50.01.01.15, Letter to Fritz from Lilly and another person as well.
Language: German
Date: April 1916
RG-50.01.01.16, Letter, to and from is illegible.
Language: German
Date: 13 April 1916
RG-50.01.01.17, Four different penmanships in one letter to Fritz.
Language: German
Date: 22 November 1916
RG-50.01.01.18, Letter to Fritz from his Uncle Siegfried.
Language: German
Date: 15 December 1916
RG-50.01.01.19, Miscellaneous note to Fritz.
Language: German
Date: 1 June 1917
RG-50.01.01.20, Letter to Fritz from his Uncle Max and Aunt Agnes.
Language: German
Date: 4 July 1917
RG-50.01.01.21, Letter to Fritz from Else.
Language: German
Date: 23 September 1917
RG-50.01.01.22, Postcard to Fritz
Language: German
Date: 20 December 1917
RG-50.01.01.23, Handwritten letter to Fritz. Signature illegible.
Language: German
Date: 21 May 1919
RG-50.01.01.24, Note from Tante Henrietta.
Language: German
Date: 2 September 1919
RG-50.01.01.25, Letter to Fritz
Language: German
Date: 19 October 1919
RG-50.01.01.26, Letter from Fritz to his mother written sometime in the 1920s. He speaks to her about money and the weather and happenings with his family. [talk about America]
Language: German
Date: 1920s
RG-50.01.01.27, Letter to Fritz and Paula from Tante Mathilde.
Language: German
Date: 30 May 1920
RG-50.01.01.28, Letter to Fritz from Kurt (or Karl).
Language: German
Date: 6 July 1921
RG-50.01.01.29, Letter from Fritz to a friend named Erich, asking for his advice about business and anti-Semitic issues.
Language: German
Date: 4 December 1926
RG-50.01.01.30, Letter to Fritz from Henrietta.
Language: German
Date: 30 June 1928
RG-50.01.01.31, Letter from Fritz to his mother. It concerns finances, the economy and his mother’s potential move to another city.
Language: German
Date: 5 September 1928
RG-50.01.01.32, Letter to Fritz from Martha.
Language: German
Date: 10 April 1935
RG-50.01.01.33, Letter from Fritz to a credit union asking about his cousin, Franz.
Language: German
Date: 26 April 1936
RG-50.01.01.34, Letter to Fritz from his cousin Eugene.
Language: German
Date: 20 January 1937
RG-50.01.01.35, Letter to Fritz, from his niece Ellen.
Language: German
Date: 1 February 1937
RG-50.01.01.36, Letter from Fritz to the doctor at his mother’s nursing home asking for more suitable accommodations for her.
Language: German
Date: 24 May 1938
RG-50.01.01.37, Short letter to Fritz from his mother’s nursing home. It talks about the state of his mother’s accommodations.
Language: German
Date: 22 June 1938
RG-50.01.01.38, Handwritten letter to Fritz.
Language: German
Date: 2 July 1938
RG-50.01.01.39, Letter to Fritz from Eva Buchholz, followed by a letter from “Prou?” Buchholz and another person whose signature is illegible.
Language: German
Date: 26 December 1938
RG-50.01.01.40, Letter to Fritz from his mother (Wachsner).
Language: German
Date: 21 July 1939
RG-50.01.01.41, Postcard to Fritz, congratulating him on Marianne’s birth.
Language: German
Date: 10 June 1941
RG-50.01.01.42, Invitation to go to the North Sea, on stationery from “Mitteilung vom Sophien-Gymnasium.”
Language: German
Date: Unknown
RG-50.01.01.43.01, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 30 May 1913
RG-50.01.01.43.02, Letter to Fritz from Lotte at the Hotel Steinbock.
Language: German
Date: 11 July 1913
RG-50.01.01.43.03, Letter to Fritz from Lotte from the Alpen Hotel (on its stationery).
Language: German
Date: 7 August 1913
RG-50.01.01.43.04, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 6 November 1913
RG-50.01.01.43.05, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 13 November 1913
RG-50.01.01.43.06, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 13 November 1913, (duplicate)
RG-50.01.01.43.07, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 27 November 1913
RG-50.01.01.43.08, Letter to Fritz from Lotte (duplicate)
Language: German
Date: 27 November 1913
RG-50.01.01.43.09, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 4 December 1913
RG-50.01.01.43.10, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 30 January 1914
RG-50.01.01.43.11, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 22 February 1914
RG-50.01.01.43.12, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 26 February 1914
RG-50.01.01.43.13, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 5 March 1914
RG-50.01.01.43.14, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 9 March 1914
RG-50.01.01.43.15, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 20 March 1914
RG-50.01.01.43.16, Postcard to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German Date: 10 April 1914
RG-50.01.01.43.17, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 15 April 1914
RG-50.01.01.43.18, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 16 April 1914
RG-50.01.01.43.19, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 30 April 1914
RG-50.01.01.43.20, Letter to Fritz from Lotte
Language: German
Date: 25 October 1913
RG-50.01.01.43.21, Postcard that Lotte sent to herself in Lublin
Date: 1 August 1924 (?)
RG-50.01.02, Documentation
RG-50.01.02.01, Fritz’s small pox vaccination certificate
Language: German
Date: 9 June 1898
RG-50.01.02.02, Fritz’s vaccination certificate
Language: German
Date: 28 June 1901
RG-50.01.02.03, Note verifying that Fritz has had his vaccinations, handwritten
Language: German
Date: 28 June 1907
RG-50.01.02.04, Jewelry Holder
RG-50.01.02.05, Pub Jokes
RG-50.01.03, Poetry
RG-50.01.03.01, Birthday poem Fritz wrote for his Uncle.
Language: German
Date: 3 October 1930c.
RG-50.01.03.02, Poem about celebration, culture, and being together.
Language: German
Date: 27 December 1935
RG-50.01.03.03, Poem (most likely written by Fritz) about nature and beautiful imagery.
Language: German
Undated
RG-50.01.03.04, Poem entitled, “Meine Schul- und Studentenzeit.”
Language: German
Undated
RG-50.01.03.05, Silly poetry book for fun.
Language: German Undated
RG-50.01.04, School Documentation
RG-50.01.04.01, School Report Cards by Year and Academic Quarter
Report cards from 1892-1906
RG-50.01.04.01.01, Report card 1892, 4th quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.02, Report card 1893, 1st quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.03, Report card 1893, 2nd and 3rd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.04, Report card 1893, 4th quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.05, Report card 1894, 1st quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.06, Report card 1894, 2nd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.07, Report card 1894, 3rd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.08, Report card 1894, 4th quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.09, Report card 1895, 1st quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.10, Report card 1895, 2nd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.11, Report card 1895, 3rd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.12, Report card 1895, 4th quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.13, Report card 1896, 1st quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.14, Report card 1896, 2nd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.15, Report card 1896, 3rd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.16, Report card 1896, 4th quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.17, Report card 1897, 1st quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.18, Report card 1897, 2nd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.19, Report card 1897, 3rd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.20, Report card 1897, 4th quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.21, Report card 1898, 1st quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.22, Report card 1898, 2nd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.23, Report card 1898, 3rd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.24, Report card 1898, 4th quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.25, Report card 1899, 1st quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.26, Report card 1899, 2nd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.27, Report card 1899, 3rd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.28, Report card 1899, 4th quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.29, Report card 1900, 1st quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.30, Report card 1900, 2nd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.31, Report card 1900, 3rd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.32, Report card 1900, 4th quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.33, Report card 1901, 1st quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.34, Report card 1901, 2nd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.35, Report card 1901, 3rd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.36, Report card 1902, Summer
RG-50.01.04.01.37, Report card 1902, 4th and 1st quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.38, Report card 1902-1903 Winter
RG-50.01.04.01.39, Report card 1903 Summer
RG-50.01.04.01.40, Report card 1903-1904
RG-50.01.04.01.41, Report card 1904, 2nd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.42, Report card 1904, 3rd quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.43, Report card 1904, 4th quarter
RG-50.01.04.01.44, Report card 1905 Summer
RG-50.01.04.01.45, Report card 1905
RG-50.01.04.01.46, Report card 1905
RG-50.01.04.01.47, Report card 1906
RG-50.01.04.02.01, Excursion to the Gas works 1906 Sophien Gymnasium
RG-50.01.04.02.02, Fritz Wachsner application to attend class
RG-50.01.04.02.03, Fritz Wachsner entering University written in Latin
RG-50.01.04.02.04, Fritz Wachsner form in Latin
RG-50.01.04.02.06, School Trip to Bornholm 1906
RG-50.01.04.02.09, Past, present and future Humorous School Newsletter
RG-50.01.04.02.10, Outing of Chemical Class Berlin 1908
RG-50.01.04.02.11, Lecture Pamphlet University of Jena
RG-50.01.04.02.13, Fritz Wachsner Promotion Exams
RG-50.01.04.02.14, Student Field Trip to the Mineralog. Institute 1910
RG-50.01.04.02.16, Songbook for the Jena student body 27 January 1910
RG-50.01.04.02.17, Summer Courses in Jena for ladies and gentlemen
RG-50.01.04.02.19, group photo Jena 1911
RG-50.01.04.02.20, Fritz Wachsner certificate for oral tests May 1911
RG-50.01.04.02.21, Fritz Wachsner certificate for oral tests May 1911
RG-50.01.04.02.22, Fritz Wachsner Newsletter for teacher seminars
RG-50.01.04.02.23, Registration for the study of Jewry in Berlin 1911
RG-50.01.04.02.24, Rules for Attendance Winter Semester 1911 to 1912
RG-50.01.04.02.26, Fritz Wachsner certificate mineralogy
RG-50.01.04.02.27, Fritz Wachsner student plan work schedule
RG-50.01.04.02.28, school of Lute music sheets
RG-50.01.04.02.29, Quinta school group photograph
RG-50.01.05, Scientific Depictions
RG-50.01.05.01, Apple, Cherry, Rose, Strawberry
RG-50.01.05.02, Bony Fish
RG-50.01.05.03, Cell division
RG-50.01.05.04, Coral reef animals
RG-50.01.05.05, Moss
RG-50.01.05.06, Plant organisms 1
RG-50.01.05.07, Plant organisms 2
RG-50.01.05.08, Plants
RG-50.01.05.09, Ring worm
RG-50.01.05.10, Sea star
RG-50.01.05.11, Single celled organisms
RG-50.01.05.12, Transition to the multicellular
RG-50.01.06, Sophien Gymnasium Event Programs
RG-50.01.06.01, Official celebration program of 28 March 1896
RG-50.01.06.02, Kaiser’s birthday celebration program of 27 January 1897
RG-50.01.06.03, Hundred-year birthday celebration for Kaiser William on 22 March 1897
RG-50.01.06.04, Christmas program for 25 December 1897
RG-50.01.06.05, Kaiser’s birthday celebration on 27 January 1899
RG-50.01.06.06, Graduation program of 4 April 1900
RG-50.01.06.07, Graduation program of 23 June 1900
RG-50.01.06.08, Graduation program of 30 March 1901
RG-50.01.06.09, Memorial service program for Professor Heinrich Peter for 25 April 1901
RG-50.01.06.10, Kaiser’s birthday celebration program of 27 January 1902
RG-50.01.06.11, Graduation program of 22 March 1902
RG-50.01.06.12, Graduation program of 27 September 1902
RG-50.01.06.13, Graduation program of 1 April 1903
RG-50.01.07, Songs
RG-50.01.07.01, Notebook with lists in it and musical notation for Yiddish song.
Language: German or Yiddish
Undated
RG-50.01.07.02, Spanish song handwritten on a scrap of paper. “Cielito Lindo,” beautiful little heaven/sky.
Language: Spanish
Undated
RG-50.01.07.03.01, Handwritten song 1, German
RG-50.01.07.03.02, Handwritten song 2, German
RG-50.01.07.03.03, Handwritten song 3, German
RG-50.01.07.03.04, Handwritten song 4, German
RG-50.01.07.03.05, Handwritten song 5, German, Brahams
RG-50.01.07.03.06, Handwritten song 6, German, about a potato
RG-50.01.07.04, Spanish songs.
Language: Spanish
Undated
RG-50.01.08, Printed Materials
RG-50.01.08.01, Flyer that announces a new restaurant opening in town.
Language: German
Undated
RG-50.01.08.02, “Beer Newspaper for the Trip of the ‘Lchen-Institute.”
Language: German
Undated
RG-50.01.08.03, Christmas booklet entitled “From the highest joy to the deepest sorrow.” Only introduction is scanned.
Language: German
Date: 1933
RG-50.01.08.04, Music program, there is a picture of the Hamburg America Line ship.
RG-50.01.08.05, Newspaper clipping, which talks about organization of guides for the army.
RG-50.01.09, Photographs
RG-50.01.09.01, Photo of Trude Steinitz. There is a woman and a baby, pictured.
Date: 1914
RG-50.01.09.02, Photo of Margarete Wachsner Bergmann.
Date: 1912
RG-50.01.09.03, Photo of Margarete Wachsner Bergmann
Date: 1916
RG-50.02, MARIANNE MEYERHOFF COLLECTION
RG-50.02.01, Havana Photographs
RG-50.02.01.01, Photo of a group of men in Havana. Digital copy only.
[Havana pictures take place in the 1930s]
RG-50.02.01.02, Another photo of a group of men sitting on the stoop of a building in Havana. Digital copy only
RG-50.02.01.03, Photo of a man sitting on a cement wall playing a lute. Digital copy only
RG-50.02.01.04, Photo of two men using oxen to plow a field in Havana. Digital copy only
RG-50.02.01.05, Photo 2 of men plowing field. Digital copy only
RG-50.02.01.06, Photo of a plantation in Havana. Digital copy only
RG-50.02.01.07, Man picking fruit in a field in Havana. Digital copy only
RG-50.02.02, Holland Photographs
RG-50.02.02.01, Four people—two women, a man, and a boy—in a field in Holland. Digital copy only. [These people were the ones who saved Marianne’s mother from the Westerbork detention camp]
RG-50.02.02.02, Photo of a man and a woman on a tandem bike in Holland. Digital copy only
RG-50.02.02.03, Photo of three women and a boy in a field in Holland. Digital copy only
RG-50.02.02.04, Photo of three women in a field. Digital copy only
RG-50.02.03, Marianne Meyerhoff, audio guide texts, Word document
RG-50.02.04, Marianne Meyerhoff’s Quinta school photo
Correspondence in German language
Documents in German language
Educational documents, German, 1900 -- 1939
Family correspondence, Wachsner family
Family history, records
Family History, Wachsester
Fritz Wachsner, personal correspondence
German imperial army, 1900 -- 1918
Germany (1900 -- 1939)
Germany, history
Jewish soldiers, German Imperial Army (WWI)
Jewish teachers in Germany, 1900 -- 1940
Jews in Germany, history and integration
Personal correspondence
soldiers, German, the First World War
teachers and teaching, Germany
Photograph of European-Jewish men in Havana (Cuba)
ca 1938
Wachsner/Meyerhoff
Photograph of German-Jewish men in Havana Cuba.
ca 1939
Photograph of a man playing lute on a cement wall.
Meyerhoff/Wachsner
ca 1939
Photograph of two men using oxen to plow a field, Havana
ca 1939
Photograph of two men plowing a field with oxen, Havana
ca 1939
Photograph of a plantation style home in Havana Cuba.
ca 1939
Photograph of man picking fruit in Havana field.
ca 1939
Wachsner/Meyerhoff
Four people in a field in Holland
Holland
ca 1938
Photograph taken in Laren, North Holland
July 9, 1939
Photo of group in Laren, North Holland
July 9, 1939
Photo of German-Jewish women in Laren (North Holland) after their failed trip to Cuba aboard the St. Louis.
July 9, 1939
