Kollander family collection
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mel Kollander
Mel Kollander donated donated the Kollander family collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.
Scope and Content
Consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the Kollander family, originally of Leipzig, Germany. The bulk of the collection is related to Max Kollander, who emigrated to the United States in 1926, including correspondence with family in Germany, affidavits to get his parents to the United States, and telegrams from 1938-1939 after the Kristallnacht arrest of Max's brother Leo. The entire family was eventually able to leave Germany and survived the war.
People
- Kollander, Leo.
- Kollander, Max.
Subjects
- German--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945.
- Germany.
- Leipzig (Germany)
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Telegrams.
- Correspondence.
- Photographs.
- Document