Windmueller and Wasserman families collection

Overview

Collection Summary

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.

Provenance

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by Renate Windmueller Wasserman.