Edith Simon Rosenthal papers
Extent and Medium
folder
oversize box
1
1
Creator(s)
- Edith Rosenthal
Biographical History
Edith Simon (1923-2009) was born on February 26, 1923, in Leipzig, Germany, to William and Margaret (Grete) Maerker Simon. Grete’s parents were Louis and Hedwig Weil Maerker. Edith had two sisters, Lotte, born in 1925, and Gerda, born in 1921. Grete and Willy married in Bernburg and settled in Leipzig where Willy operated a prosperous real estate and mortgage business. His business did well even during the difficult economic conditions of the 1920s. But after Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 with the growing persecution of Jews and boycotts of their businesses, her father's business began to fail. The family left Germany for the United States in 1937 and settled in Philadelphia. She married Harry Rosenthal and they had two children. Many family members were deported to Theresienstadt and other concentration camps where they were killed.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ellen, Erin, and Mark Rosenthal
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Mark, Ellen and Erin Rosenthal.
Scope and Content
The collection includes a family photograph album and Edith Simon Rosenthal's birth, vaccination, and naturalization certificates documenting the lives of the Simon family from Leipzig, Germany before World War II and their immigration to the United States.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arrranged as a single series.
People
- Rosenthal, Edith Simon.
- Edith Rosenthal
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Germany--Leipzig.
- Natualization--United States.
- Refugees, Jewish--United States.
Genre
- Photograph albums.
- Document
- Photographs.
- Certificates.