Rudolf and Hildegard Selig Collection 1933-1941

Collection of family letters. The bulk of letters were sent by Max Busch, a lawyer in Stettin, to his friends Rudolf and Hildegard Selig after the Seligs' emigration to New York City in 1936. There is also some correspondence from the other relatives and acquaintances of the Seligs in Germany. The final letters are sent by Busch from a Lublin address; he describes the worsening conditions and briefly mentions the Jewish ghetto.The family of the orthopaedic surgeon Rudolf Selig and wife Hildegard emigrated from Stettin to the United States in 1936 with the help of Max Busch, a family friend and attorney in Stettin who was deported to Lublin in 1941.Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize