Oppenheimer Stern Family Collection 1909-2002 Bulk dates: 1909-1926

This collection contains journals, clippings and other papers related to the lives of some of the members of the Oppenheimer and Stern families, particularly of Philip Oppenheimer and his wife, the fencing champion Stephanie SternEdith L. Gordon is the daughter of Stephanie Johanna Stern (1901-1996) and Phillip Hans Walter Oppenheimer (1897-1988).Phillip Oppenheimer was born in 1897 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany to Jewish parents. After serving in the German army during World War I, in 1926 he obtained a doctorate in engineering at the Munich Technical University. He married Stephanie Stern, a German fencing champion, in America in 1927. She competed in fencing tournaments in several countries, including Germany, Italy, and the United States.ProcesseddigitizedDiary of Phillip H. Oppenheimer 1915-1923 (original and English translation); scrapbook with clippings on Stephanie Oppenheimer's (nee Stern) fencing career, 1920s; notes by Clara Stern for her grandchildren (1909-1913); copy of skit commemorating silver wedding anniversary of Else and Karl Stern, 192