Oppenheimer and Sander Families Collection 1868-1905, 2006 Bulk dates: 1868-1900

The Oppenheimer and Sander Families Collection provide details of family members' lives via personal correspondence, especially the letters of Emilie Oppenheimer and her daughter Betty. In addition to the many letters and postcards are a family tree, some poems and notes.Emilie Sander became the second wife of Aron Oppenheimer, the owner of a textile business in Sonneberg (Thuringia, Germany), in 1872. The following year they had a daughter, Betty. After her husband's death in 1888, Emilie continued her husband's business by herself. Betty went to live with relatives in Vienna as a teenager in order to learn dressmaking. By December 1892 Emilie Oppenheimer had closed her textile shop and moved to Darmstadt, where many members of her family resided.The Sander and Oppenheimer families were further intertwined through the marriage of Emilie's sister Emma Sander to Aron Oppenheimer's brother Heinrich Oppenheimer.ProcesseddigitizedDigital ImageOppenheimer, Heinrich. Sander, Betty, 1873 -