Sylvia Neulander collection

Identifier
irn606776
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.446.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn606776

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Sylvia Neulander

Biographical History

Sylvia Neulander (1908-1989) was born in Ohio in 1908 to Rabbi Jeremias Neulander and Betti Neulander. She had nine siblings including Arthur Harold Neulander (1896-1988), Elisabeth Neulander (1897-?), Alice Elizabeth Hartley (1898-1985), Ernest Neulander (1903-1982), Richard Neulander (1905-1996), Violet Wolfson (1908-2002), Margaret Rachunow (1911-1994), Edith Kopelman (1912-2003), and Grace “Dassie” Marquit (1918-2011). Sylvia joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and worked in the United States zone in Germany after the war. Sylvia Neulander died in 1989.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nina Silver

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Nina Silver donated the Sylvia Neulander collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015. Nina Silver is the neice of Sylvia Neulander.

Scope and Content

The Sylvia Neulander collection consists of a letter written by Sylvia Neulander, who worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) after the war in the US Zone of Germany; addressed to Sylvia's sister Alice in 1946. In the letter, Sylvia describes accompanying a group of orphaned children from Marseille to Eretz Israel (Palestine) in April 1946, and visiting other children who previously had gone to Kibbutz Buchenwald. The collection also includes a photograph of Sylvia in uniform.

System of Arrangement

The Sylvia Neulander collection is arranged in a single series.

People

  • Hartley, Alice Elizabeth, 1898-1985.
  • Neulander, Sylvia, 1908-1989.

Corporate Bodies

  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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