Nadelmann and Wolff families collection 1809-2016

The Nadelmann and Wolff Families Collection provides documentation about members of the Nadelmann, Wolff, Lewinsohn, and Kann families, including details on their professions, early lives, the towns from which family members derived, and including details on the emigration and deportation of family members. The collection consists of family correspondence, photographs, genealogical research, and research on family members' hometowns.Letters mentioned in: We shall not forget! : memories of the Holocaust / edited by Carole Garbuny Vogel, with the assistance of The Sons and Daughters of Holocaust Survivors Discussion Group [of Temple Isaiah of Lexington, MA], D 810 J4 W380 1995.Martin Wolff was born on May 20, 1877 in Thorn (today Toruń, Poland), the son of the merchant and Thorn synagogue chairman David Wolff, and the great-grandson of Rabbi Arieh Lieb ben Seeb/Lewin (Loebisch) Wolff. On August 12, 1907 he married Paula Lewinsohn, also of Thorn. They had two children: Hans Georg and Hildegard Mathilde, both born in Braunsberg, Ostpreussen (today Braniewo, Poland). Martin owned the Neustaedtische Apotheke pharmacy in Braunsberg, East Prussia (now Braniewo, Poland), and was the Braunsberg synagogue Chairman. In 1936 Martin and Paula Wolff moved to Berlin. About a week later Hans Georg departed for the United States; his sister followed in 1937 after having been expelled from her university studies due to being Jewish. In their first years in the United States, Hans studied to become a pharmacist and Hilde held various positions, working as a nanny, saleswoman, and in the department of postal censorship. Hans changed his name to H. George Wolfe, from Hans Georg Wolff. Although Martin and Paula Wolff tried to leave Germany, by the time they received visas to travel to Cuba, in November 1941, Jews were no longer allowed to leave Germany. They were deported to Raasiku, Estonia, near Tallin in 1942, where they were shot to death.Alfred Hans Nadelmann was the son of Hugo Nadelmann and his wife Elise (née Russ). The Nadelmann family owned a pharmacy, the Hof- und Garnison-Apotheke in Stettin (today Szczecin, Poland), where Alfred, who earned a PhD in organic chemistry, also became a pharmacist. He had two sisters: Erna and Alice. In 1938 Alfred came to the United States, changing his surname to Nadelman. In 1944 he married Hilde Wolfe. They had two children. The family moved to Michigan, where Alfred Nadelman became a university professor, founding the Department of Paper Technology at Western Michigan University.An inventory of the collection, created by the donor, is available folder 1.Finding aid available online.Processeddigitize