Brandstaetter family papers

Documents pertaining to the family of Salomon and Estera Brandstaetter, originally of Brzesko and Będzin, Poland. Includes birth certificates for Salomon (issued in Brzesko 1936) and Estera (issued in Będzin, 1980), school certificates for Salomon (1931 and 1935), a ketubah, documenting the wedding of Salomon and Estera in Lwów, Poland (12 April 1940), an envelope that formerly contained a letter (not extant), sent by Salamon’s mother, Malka Brandstaetter to her brother, Arnold, in New York (1941), a certificate issued by the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community in Munich, attesting to the validity of the marriage of Salomon and Estera (1947); certificates of identity in lieu of a passport, for Salomon and Estera, issued by the United States Consulate in Munich (1947), and a receipt for ship’s passage on the S.S. Ernie Pyle (1947).