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 neֳ© 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.

Collection of letters and documents of the November family. Poland and Israel, 1940ג€™s-1950ג€™s.
The family survived the Holocaust under the Nazi regime, and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1950, after attempting to receive an emigration visa to the USA.
Collection includes: 15 travel documents, employment authorization and food notepad. * 15 postcards sent from Poland to USA, with postage stamps and ink-stamps of the Nazi regime, 1940-1941. * 16 postcards and letters sent from Dukla, Poland to USA, 1939-1946. * 15 letters and documents, 1946-1949 - correspondence with Polish authorities and the Jewish agency (Polish). * 60 stamped and postmarked envelopes (without letters), sent from Lodz to Connecticut, USA, 1946-1949. * Correspondence with USA authorities, 1945 (German). * 5 original photographs of gravestones of the family in Dukla. Total of over 120 items. Various sizes and conditions.

Four documents related to the attempts to save the Jews of Hungary:
1. Immigration-certificate to Palestine issued by the department of foreign citizens in the Swiss consulate in Budapest - Schweizerische Gesandtschaft - Abteilung fֳ¼r fremde Interessen, Budapest. Certificate in the name of Petֵ‘ Rֳ³bert and his family. September 29, 1944.
2. Certificate issued by the Pope's representative in Budapest (Nunzio Apostolico di Budapest) with several names of Jews. Budapest, November 1944.
3. Collective Pass issued by the department of foreign citizens in the Swiss Consulate in Budapest in the name of Fֳ¶ldes Sֳ¡ndor and his spouse. Budapest, October 23, 1944. German and Hungarian.
4. Certificate issued by the Swedish Consulate in Budapest( Kֳ¶niglich Schwedische Gesandtschaft), in the name of Fodor Lֳ¡szlֳ³. Budapest, September 9, 1944.
Various sizes, fair-good condition.