Overview
- Description
- Contains restitution case files for clients of Sidney Stecher. The case files contain personal information about Holocaust survivors including: place of birth, occupation, ghetto and concentration camp experiences, place of liberation, medical information, and attempts to receive restitution from the German government. Files also contain various documents dating from the 1930s and 1940s used as evidence in the claims process.
- Date
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inclusive:
1955-1970
- Collection Creator
- Sidney Stecher
- Biography
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Sidney Stecher (1920-1972) was born in Köln, Germany in 1920. He immigrated to the United States in 1937, and served with O.S.S. during and after the Second World War. His law practice began in the mid-1950s in New York City and continued until his death in 1972.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Case files.
- Extent
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11 boxes
- System of Arrangement
- The Sidney Stecher collection of restitution claim files is arranged in a single series by client name.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection are protected by copyright and/or related rights, or contain sensitive personal information. Users may not share with a third party material that contains identifiable information of an individual (e.g., names, dates of birth, social security numbers, bank account information from the last 50 years, etc…) until 50 years after the last date in the file. The user is solely responsible for their use of this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Allan Jacobson donated the case files to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 1995.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:01:47
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504301
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- Terms of Use
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