The family Aaron Kahn /

Family history, translated by Fred Kahn.

"... I want an Ocean between us!" : Letters from Samuel Kahn, devoted father of one of the thousand children brought from Germany to the United States in 1934.

The manuscript contains letters written by Samuel Kahn to his daughter in the USA between 1934 and 1937.

Meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee 1918 in New York

Reproduction of a painting of a meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee (representing the American Jewish Relief Committee, the Central Rellief Committee and the People's Relief Committee) and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee, with chairman Felix Warburg, secretary Albert Lucas, stenographer Mrs. F. Friedman, executive director Boris Bogen, comptroller Harriet Lowenstein, associate treasurer Paul Baerwald and treasurer Arthur Lehman; Office of Mr. Felix M. Warburg, 52 William Street, New York

Liederkranz trip to Hundseck Portraits Groups

Liederkranzausflug nach Hundseck; Standing l-r; Sidi Ullmann, Ehepaar, Alfred und Toni Hirschland, Willi Ullmann, Lisel Suess, Lene Hesse-Sinzheimer, Julius Suess, ?, Hermann Boehm, Eugen Hirsch, Dr. Carl Kahn, Frau von Michael Rothschild (Ella?), Max Sinzheimer, Grete Hirschland and Alfred Liebmann ; Seated l-r: Adele Boehm, Michael Rothschild, rosel Suess, Louis Kahn (Junior), Ehepaar Dr. Gustav Hecht, Paula Hirsch and Marianne Kahn

From the History of the Jews of Muellheim/Baden.

Translation of chapter by Ludwig Kahn written originally in German in 1961

Tolle Jahre Versuch einer Lebensbeschreibung

Description of the author’s family background. His paternal family owned a tobacco and cigarres business in Ulm, which was transferred to Munich in 1888. The maternal family in Frankfurt am Main had a textile export business. Recollections of his schooldays at the Catholic St. Anna Schule. Antisemitic encounters at the local Gymnasium. Description of life in the 19th century. Reverence for the local royalties. The family was involved in the Zionist movement, as were most of the members of their local synagoge.

Jules Wertheimer family collection.

Family trees listing; newspaper clippings on Nazi period in Wertheim; inscriptions from Jewish cemetery in Schmieheim.