Kaufmann Collection
Erna Kaufmann, Sheldon Dorn's mother, had fled Germany, alongside her brothers Alfred and Ernst, leaving behind their mother, Pauline, who could not procure a visa. The collection consists of the correspondence…
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Schragenheim Collection
Bernhard and Rosette Schragenheim, with their son Julian, arrived in South Africa in 1934, to escape the Nazi regime in Germany. The bulk of the material is from Germany and…
Solly Disner Collection
The Solly Disner Collection contains documentation, publications and photographs pertaining to the life of Solly Disner, who immigrated to South Africa from Lithuania where he became a prominent sculptor. The…
Rotkopf Collection
The collection contains documents related to the descendants of the Ullmann, Kahn and Rotkopf families. The collection contains the various documents, photographs, correspondence and other materials related to the three…
Erich Brand Collection
This Erich Brand Collection contains a conscription notice and five letters written on 8 November 1944 by Erich Brand, who was a soldier in the Wehrmacht. One of the letters…
Rubinstein Collection
The collection contains correspondence, documentation and publications related to the Rubinstein family, originally from Poland
Grunau Collection
The collection contains a translation of an affidavit confirming Harry’s parentage and date of birth as well as two commemorative poems he wrote 46 years after leaving Germany
Miriam Pasvol Collection
It contains correspondence, documentation, publications, ephemera and photographs related to Siegfried and Martha Meyer as well as their families, German Jewish refugees who came to South Africa in the late 1930s
Irene Groll Collection
It contains correspondence, documentation, publications, photographs ,and ephemera related to Irene Groll’s experience during the Holocaust, her efforts to claim for reparation from the late 1940s to the 1950s as…
Gitta Usdin and Usdin Family Collection
Donated by Sally Singer, the Gitta Usdin Photograph and Document Collection consists mostly of published pieces of poetry found in newspapers. Born in Latvia, Gitta wrote mainly in Yiddish. Translations…