Gertrude Buff Spangler papers
Extent and Medium
folder
oversize box
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gertrude Buff Spangler
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Gertrude Buff Spangler via her children Anne Hollenbeck and David Spangler.
Scope and Content
Collection of documents, photographs and notebook illustrating the pre-war and wartime experiences of Gertrude Buff's and her mother and father, Elsa and Berthold Buff. Also included is a Deutsches Reich Reisepass [German passport] for Paul Spangenthal [Gertrude's husband, Paul Spangler]. Collection contains Arbeitsbuch [worker's book] for Gertrude, who was forced as a Jew to leave school and work for private German companies until she and Elsa emigrated in 1939. Includes German documents concerning confiscated family property and post-war restitution efforts; a handwritten German cookbook written by Anna Mosbacher [Gertrude's maternal grandmother] who died before the Holocaust; and a composition book, handwritten, with crafting and handiwork directions.
Subjects
- Restitution and indemnification claims (1933-)
Genre
- Identification card.
- Passport.
- Photographs.
- Notebooks.
- Document