Large Documents Archive – Mayer Family of Frankfurt

Archive of letters and documents – Mayer family of Frankfurt am Main. Germany, 1920s-60s. The archive tells the story of five members of the Mayer family: the parents Joseph and Adelheid neé Loeb, their daughters Jeannette, b. 1923 and Johanna, b. 1924 and their son Max, b. 1926, who, probably, left Frankfurt in February 1939 and moved to Eretz Israel. During the years following their arrival in Israel, they struggled to retrieve their property. The archive contains: -Folder with family documents and certificates of the years 1920-1939. The documents reflect the family's efforts to leave Germany. Amongst the documents: a third Reich passport, issued in Frankfurt on January 1939 (ink stamps of Palestine government and the British mandate in Eretz Israel of February 1939); an official document informing the family that the names "Israel" and "Sarah" were added to their names; letters from the London committee for aid to German Jews, from the national council of Jewish women in New York, the Israeli office of the Jewish Agency in Berlin, the Eretz Israel office in Basel. - Folders with correspondences and copies of letters, 1950s-60s: correspondence concerning compensation for Synagoge Friedberger Anlage in Frankfurt and documents and letters regarding claims and retrieval of property in Germany; binder with documents concerning insurance and bank accounts, etc. Sizes and conditions vary.