Sylvia Neulander collection
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Overview
- Description
- The Sylvia Neulander collection consists of a letter written by Sylvia Neulander, who worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) after the war in the US Zone of Germany; addressed to Sylvia's sister Alice in 1946. In the letter, Sylvia describes accompanying a group of orphaned children from Marseille to Eretz Israel (Palestine) in April 1946, and visiting other children who previously had gone to Kibbutz Buchenwald. The collection also includes a photograph of Sylvia in uniform.
- Date
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creation:
1946 May 17
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nina Silver
- Collection Creator
- Sylvia Neulander
- Biography
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Sylvia Neulander (1908-1989) was born in Ohio in 1908 to Rabbi Jeremias Neulander and Betti Neulander. She had nine siblings including Arthur Harold Neulander (1896-1988), Elisabeth Neulander (1897-?), Alice Elizabeth Hartley (1898-1985), Ernest Neulander (1903-1982), Richard Neulander (1905-1996), Violet Wolfson (1908-2002), Margaret Rachunow (1911-1994), Edith Kopelman (1912-2003), and Grace “Dassie” Marquit (1918-2011). Sylvia joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and worked in the United States zone in Germany after the war. Sylvia Neulander died in 1989.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Photograph. Letters.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Sylvia Neulander collection is arranged in a single series.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Orphans. Children. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief--Europe. Jewish children. Jewish refugees.
- Geographic Name
- Germany. Marseille (France)
- Corporate Name
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Nina Silver donated the Sylvia Neulander collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015. Nina Silver is the neice of Sylvia Neulander.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-23 13:46:50
- This page:
- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn606776
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