Max Landwirth papers
Extent and Medium
folders
14
Creator(s)
- Max Landwirth
Biographical History
Max Landwirth (1863-1943) was born in Kraków, in what was then part of the Austrian Empire, on 21 July 1863. He served in the Austrian army, prior to immigrating to the United States. He initially settled in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he opened a clothing store. On 21 August 1898, he married Mollie Drebin, of Michigan City, Indiana, but after their wedding, the couple returned to Vicksburg. Due to Mrs. Landwirth’s health, however, they decided to return to Michigan City shortly thereafter, and Landwirth opened a clothing store in that city, which he operated until his retirement in 1929. The Landwirths had six children: Anna, Ella, Morris, Charles, Leonard, and Meyer. Max Landwirth died in Michigan City at the age of 80, in November 1943.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joan Dodek
Gift of Joan Dodek, 2015.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, affidavits, tax returns, telegrams, photographs and other documents primarily related to the efforts of Max Landwirth (1863-1943), of Michigan City, Indiana, to assist relatives in Germany and Austria with immigration to the United States, as a result of Nazi persecution in those countries, 1938-1939.
System of Arrangement
Files are arranged alphabetically by individual name, and then in subfolders by subject or document type.
People
- Landwirth, Izak.
- Landwirth, Michael.
- Glassner, Hermann.
Subjects
- Jewish refugees--United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Germany--Emigration and immigration.
- Austria--Emigration and immigration.
- Michigan City (Ind.)
- Jews--Indiana--Michigan City.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Correspondence.
- Tax records.
- Affidavits.
- Document
- Telegrams.