Schmidt family collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Milton Schmidt
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Milton Schmidt.
Scope and Content
Contains a letter of recommendation written by Prof. Gustav Embden for Dr. Gerhard Schmidt, dated 1929; a letter written by Joseph Sepp Grunbaum, Dr. Gerhard Schmidt's brother-in-law, in which he described his ordeal in the Dachau concentration camp after Kristallnacht, dated April 26, 1939; a letter from Dr. Gerhard Schmidt to Edith Strauss Horkheimer proposing marriage to her, dated December 20, 1938; correspondence between Dr. Gerhard Schmidt and different German Jewish scientists regarding finding employment in the United States; copies of documents certified by Nazi authorities 1939; an application for naturalization prepared by Dr. Gerhard Schmidt, dated 1943; a military commemoration of Milton Horkheimer, a pilot in the Royal Air Force, who was killed in action; photographs of graves of the donor's two grandfathers, Professor Julius Schmidt (1872-1933) and Dr. Friedrich Strauss (1871-1914); and memoirs by Marianne Horkheimer Lewis, dated 1988, and Levi Strauss.
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Letters.
- Personal narratives.
- Document