Prayer book

Rabbi William Z. Dalin family papers

Document

The collection includes documents, correspondence, photographs, and clippings illustrating Rabbi William Z. Dalin’s service as a United States Army chaplain, primarily regarding his deployment in post-war Wiesbaden, Germany; post-war correspondence of his wife Bella Dalin; wartime correspondence of Helene Dreydel with her sister Alice before she and Helene’s parents, Ferdinand and Johanna, were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp; and Leo Loeb’s experiences as a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, China. Rabbi William Z. Dalin’s papers include documents, correspondence, photographs, and clippings illustrating Rabbi William Z. Dalin’s service as a United States Army chaplain, primarily regarding his deployment in post-war Wiesbaden, Germany. Documents include paperwork with the United States Army, travel paperwork, and hand-written notes taken by Rabbi Dalin while attending the Nuremberg Trials. Correspondence is primarily letters exchanged with Dr. Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary of American regarding Rabbi Dalin’s chaplaincy with the United States Army. Photographs depict Rabbi Dalin at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, the rededication of the Wiesbaden Synagogue in 1946, and Rabbi Yitzhak Herzog’s visit to the Lampertheim DP camp. The clippings include articles about Dalin that appeared in the Stars and Stripes and an article in Yiddish regarding Rabbi Yitzhak Herzog’s visit to the Lampertheim DP camp. Also included is a copy of Rabbi Philip Bernstein’s address at the rededication of the Wiesbaden Synagogue. Bella Dalin’s correspondence consists of three post-war letters exchanged between her and Miriam Bornstein while Bella was in Wiesbaden with William. Helene Dreydel’s papers primarily consist of letters exchanged through the Red Cross between Helene in England and her sister Alice in Frankfurt am Main before she was deported to Theresienstadt. Also included are postcards sent to Helene’s husband Siegfried Dreydel in New York from his sister Rosa Dreydel in Frankfurt A.M., a copy of Helene and Siegfried’s marriage certificate, documents regarding the deaths of Helene’s sister and parents, and a prayer book with family inscriptions. The papers of Leo Loeb include postcards sent to him in Shanghai by his mother Jenny Löb in Grosskrozenberg, biographical and emigration documents from Germany, identification documents from Shanghai, and photographs depicting his time in Shanghai.

Reichsbanknote

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100,000 Mark bank note dated 1923.

Central Bank of China one cent scrip

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War Office certificate holder

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War Office plastic certificate holder that originally housed a retirement certificate dating from 1968. The certificate itself is housed with the document portion of the collection.

Prayer book

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Set of prayer books for different Jewish holidays. The set belonged to Martha and Leo Loeb.

Prayer book

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Hamash volumes belonging to Leo Loeb, with inscriptions by him as well as by his father.

Prayer book

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4 volume sete of holiday mazhors: First Days of Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot, and Last Days of Passover.

Prayer book

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Sukkot Mahzor, published in 1877, that belonged to Martha Bermann Loeb.

Prayer book

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Sukkot Mahzor, published in 1878, that belonged to Martha Bermann Loeb.

Prayer book

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Shavuot Mahzor, published in 1884, that belonged to Martha Bermann Loeb.