Personal archives of Maximilian Goldstein, researcher and collector of Jewish art

Maximilian Goldstein (1880-1941) was a renowned researcher, historian and collector of Jewish art in Lwów (Lemberg, Lvov, Lviv). His large private collection included old Jewish books, paintings, furniture and other Jewish artifacts. The collection became a foundation for a private Jewish Museum established in Goldstein’s house in Lwów before WWII. After the Soviet occupation in 1939 the collection was transferred to the Museum of Arts and Industry, where Goldstein was hired as a staff member. With the beginning of the Nazi occupation of Lwów Maximilian Goldstein was imprisoned in the Lwów ghetto where he died sometime in 1941.

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ istorychnyĭ arkhiv Ukraïny u Lʹvovi (Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv), Fond 346, Opis 1. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Central State Historical Archives via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2009.