Stekler family collection

Overview

Collection Summary

The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence, receipts, report cards pertaining to the families of Walter Stekler and Gisela Schrott Stekler of Vienna, Austria and later of the United States. Also includes a mazchor, as well as tefillin (with protective bag and embroidered initials) and tallit belonging to Walter Stekler.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Herman Otto Stekler. An accretion was donated in 2019 by his daughter Beth Stekler.