Before the Holocaust: Letters to Alice (and Edith) 1939-1941.

Collection of transcribed 32 letters with accompanying notes, photographs and family trees. The letters were written by Flora Mattersheim Kleinmann to her daughter Alice Kleinmann Loewenstein and her granddaughter Edith from Vienna between July 1939 and October 1941. Introduced and edited by Ruth Leeds Love (Inge Ruth Loewenstein), Alice Kleinmann Loewenstein's granddaughter; transcripts by Herbert Weber.

Letter from Simeon Leo to his father

Letter from Simeon Leo, Esq. to his father on paper torn from a notebook. Written in broken English.

Letter on the election of Dr. Leo to the position of Honorary Secretary of Home for Aged and Infirm

Letter: Dr. Leo elected Honorary Secretary of Home for Aged and Infirm. Written in English script.

Letter regarding the election of Dr. Leo to the Progress Lodge

Letter regarding the election of Dr. Leo to the Progress Lodge. Written in English script on blue lined white paper.

Invitation to a meeting for the Thespian Sociable

Invitation to a meeting to elect officers for Thespian Sociable from Simeon N. Leo, M.D. Printed in black ink on white paper

Letter to Dr. Simeon Leo regarding a donation to Mount Sinai Hospital

Letter to Dr. Simeon Leo from Joseph Scherer about a donation to Mount Sinai Hospital. Handwritten in English script. Folded.

Letter to Dr. Simeon Leo

Letter to Dr. Simeon Leo from Edward Frankel. In English script on stationery with a gothic 'E' printed at top center.

Invitation to the opening of new Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.

Invitation to Opening of New Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews. Invitation to a reception for new building. Simeon N. Leo, M.D., Hon. Sec.

Letter of condolence to Dr. Simeon Leo

Condolence letter to Dr. Leo on the death of his father from Lina Straus. On white folded paper with gold gothic initial.

Letter to Dr. Simeon Leo

Letter to Doctor Leo from Charles Frank, patient at Montefiore Hospital

Letter of thanks to Joseph Rosen from the Ekaterinoslavskoe Evreĭskoe obshchevstvo po okazanii︠u︡ besplatnoĭ mediko-sanitornoĭ pomoshchi bedneĭshemu naselenii︠u︡ gorada Ekaterinoslava (EMSO)

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Letter of thanks to Joseph Rosen from the Ekaterinoslavskoe Evreĭskoe obshchevstvo po okazanii︠u︡ besplatnoĭ mediko-sanitornoĭ pomoshchi bedneĭshemu naselenii︠u︡ gorada Ekaterinoslava (EMSO)

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Letter of thanks to Joseph Rosen

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Letter of thanks to Joseph Rosen from the Ekaterinoslav community

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Letter of thanks to Joseph Rosen from the Ukrainian Jewish community, Kharkiv

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