Overview
- Interviewee
- Wasserman, Fred L.
- Date
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interview:
1989 August 07-1990 September 11
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 : audiocassette.
Rights & Restrictions
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- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of the material(s) in this collection. 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.
- Copyright Holder
- Wasserman, Ms. Renate
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by Renate Wasserman (nee Windmueller).
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2025-01-24 14:06:13
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Also in Windmueller and Wasserman families collection
The Windmueller and Wasserman families collection documents the Windmueller and Wasserman families of Berlin and Cologne, Germany, who immigrated to the United States in the 1930s and whose children, Renate Windmueller and George Wasserman, married in New York in 1957. Windmueller and Wasserman were 3rd cousins as their grandmothers Jenny Hamburger Wasserman and Bertha Hamburger Westheimer were sisters. The collection includes family photographs and documents; an inscribed copy of the children’s book Till Eulenspiegel; a lock of hair from Adele Schlüsselblum, the mother of George Wasserman; a set of bookplates belonging to Adele Schlüsselblum; and an oral history conducted with Fred Wasserman in 1989 and 1990 by his grandchildren.
Windmueller and Wasserman families papers
Document
The Windmueller and Wasserman families papers include documents, photographs, and restitution files relating to the Windmueller and Wasserman families of Berlin and Cologne, Germany, who immigrated to the United States in the 1930s and whose children, Renate Windmueller and George Wasserman, married in New York in 1957. Windmueller and Wasserman were 3rd cousins as their grandmothers Jenny Hamburger Wasserman and Bertha Hamburger Westheimer were sisters. Official documents, certificates, and travel papers document the Windmueller, Wasserman, and Hamburger families. A family history book, “Chronik der Familie Windmüller: Geschichte der Gemeinde Beckum,” including pasted photographs and family annotations, documents the Windmueller family. The papers also include an autograph book documenting friends and family members of George Wasserman’s mother, Adele Schlüsselblum, in Germany between 1915 and 1923. This series also includes a handmade picture book titled “Pilch und Plum” apparently made for Adele Schlüsselblum, by Wilhelm Busch, a sketchbook containing childhood drawings by George Wasserman, and a framed picture postcard. Photographic materials include original photographs, a photograph album, and printouts of digital images from a second photograph album. Two sets of photographs are accompanied by identification lists describing their contents. The photographs depict the Windmueller and Wasserman families and their Westheimer, Hamburger, Schlüsselblum, and Konigheim relatives in Germany before the Holocaust and in America after their immigration. Restitution files document Fritz and Adele Wasserman’s efforts to recover losses suffered during World War I and World War II.
Children's book, Till Eulenspiegel, inscribed by Liesel Weiss
Object
Copy of the illustrated children's book, Till Eulenspiegel, published by Meidingers Jugendschriften Verlag that was inscribed by Liesel Weiss with birthday wishes in 1938.
Lock of hair from Adele Wassermann
Object
Lock of hair from Adele "Deli" Wassermann inside a folded paper envelope labeled, "Deli Lockchen"
Box of bookplates that belonged to Adele Wassermann
Object
Set of bookplates printed with the name Deli Schlusselblum, the nickname of Adele Wassermann. The box features an image of a woman reading a book by an open doorway.
