John and Ursula Schlosstein nee Gottschalk with their infant son Ralph. portraits family

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Portrait of Rudolph Gottschalk (Ralph Gramme) as a young man; Hannover, Germany.

Photograph taken shortly before he left Hannover for England on the Kindertransport, May 1938; other data show a January 1938 departure.

Portrait of Ralph and Joan Grahme with Ralph's sister Ilse Schuster nee Gottschalk and her husband James at restaurant "Old Vienna"; London, England.

Left to right: Ralph Grahme, Joan Grahme, Ilse Schuster nee Gottschalk, and James Schuster;

Studio portait of Ralph Grahme.

Verso: 93-8-1 Ralph Grahme Donated by Joan Grahme to T. Krakauer; Apollo Photography no longer exists (note by 10/6/1986)

Wedding portrait of Ralph Grahme and Joan Traylan.

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John and Ursula Schlosstein nee Gottschalk with their infant son Ralph. portraits family

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Portrait of Rudolph Gottschalk (Ralph Gramme) as a young man; Hannover, Germany.

Photograph taken shortly before he left Hannover for England on the Kindertransport, May 1938; other data show a January 1938 departure.

Portrait of Ralph and Joan Grahme with Ralph's sister Ilse Schuster nee Gottschalk and her husband James at restaurant "Old Vienna"; London, England.

Left to right: Ralph Grahme, Joan Grahme, Ilse Schuster nee Gottschalk, and James Schuster;

Studio portait of Ralph Grahme.

Verso: 93-8-1 Ralph Grahme Donated by Joan Grahme to T. Krakauer; Apollo Photography no longer exists (note by 10/6/1986)

Wedding portrait of Ralph Grahme and Joan Traylan.

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Max Jacobsen Collection 1803-1894

Photocopies of documents: on the Schutzjude Moses Jacob during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1813); other documents relating to Jewish life in Hamburg; graduating diploma from "Hoehere Buergerschule" (1866); excerpt from letter of Louis Jacobsen to his son living in Leedsat the occasion of the outbreak of the Prussian French War (1870); letter of G. Roemer to Louis Jacobsen (1866) after he was refused the marriage with Emilie Jacobsen; partial translation of will of Nathan Joseph living in Wittingen (1844); excerpt from letter of Emilie Heine to her son Ludwig who is a first-year medical student in Munich (1894).

Es war einmal 1882-1902

Childhood in Berlin; cultural life in fin-de-siecle Berlin; voyages and travels; marriage with physician Ernst Gustav Levin; contains newspaper clippings on author's mother, the social worker Hermine Lesser, copies of letter by the author from 1942, poems by Ernst Ludwig Levin

Portrait of Bernhard Wolffenstein (1803-1848)

The sitter was Dr.Ernst Hamburgers (of the L.B.I.Executive Commitee) great grandfather, a master dyer in Berlin by profession. He is shown almost frontally, smiling, dressed up in a suit and fancy shirt.

Zacharias Hamburger Collection 1803-1870

Photocopies of family papers, such as birth-, citizenship-, and marriage certificates, as well as a permit to trade in Schmiegel, Posen. Also included is a family tree, circa 1787-1880.