Overview
- Collection Summary
- Consists of identity papers, correspondence, photographs, genealogical material related to the pre-war lives, emigration, and families of Charlotte Kuhlfas (also Hochheiser, Heiser) and Martin Gelb. Charlotte emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1937 and Martin in 1940; they married soon after his arrival. Includes letters he wrote to her in March 1940 as he was preparing to emigrate; family photographs, the machzor Martin purchased and inscribed after arriving in the United States; their identity cards and naturalization papers; family tree information for the Gelb and Heiser families; Charlotte's 1925 autograph (poesie) book; a copy of property ownership documents; and copies of passenger manifests. The collection also includes numerous examples of needlework, wood templates and a pattern book for making lace patterns, a cloth purse, a rattan box and brass candlesticks. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 and 2016 by Dr. Marilyn Greenwald.
Browse 50 Items In This Collection
Gelb and Heiser family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.559.1
Prayer book
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.2
Pair of metal candlesticks
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.3 a-d
Brass candlestick
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.4
Rattan box
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.5
Tapestry purse
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.6
Ball of thread
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.7
Embroidered napkin
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.8
Needlepoint piece
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.9
Needlepoint piece
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.10
Needlepoint piece
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.11
Needlepoint piece
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.12
Needlepoint piece
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.13
Needlepoint fringed tablecloth
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.14
White tablecloth
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.15
Monogrammed table runner
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.16
Monogrammed table runner
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.17
Polka Spider Web Wheel
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.18
Polka Spider Web Wheel
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.19
Polka Spider Web pattern book
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.20
Lace table decoration
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.21
Lace table decoration
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.22
Needlepoint piece
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.23
Needlepoint piece
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.24
Needlepoint piece
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.25
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.26
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.27
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.28
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.29
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.30
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.31
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.32
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.33
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.34
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.35
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.36
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.37
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.38
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.39
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.40
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.41
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.42
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.43
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.44
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.45
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.46
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.47
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.48
Sample of lacework
Object | Accession Number: 2016.559.49
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- 2022-07-28 18:20:00
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