Finding aid for the Marta Ransohoff correspondence with Greta Rosenthal 6223
Bo Doub
USC Libraries Special Collections
2021 March
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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Marta Ransohoff correspondence with Greta Rosenthal
Creator:
Ransohoff, Marta
Identifier/Call Number: 6223
Physical Description:
0.21 Linear Feet
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1940-1941
Abstract: The Marta Ransohoff correspondence with Greta Rosenthal contains approximately 195 letters sent from Marta Ransohoff to her
daughter Greta Rosenthal between 1940 and 1941. Also included is an immigration document titled "Wichtige Anmerkungen über
die zur Einwanderung am praktischsten Beweismittel" and photocopies of two family trees: "Nieheimer Linie" and "Peckelsheimer
Linie."
Marta Ransohoff (née Steinberg), born on February 13, 1880, spent part of her youth in Detmold, Germany before marrying textile
merchant Bernhard Ransohoff, who was a city councilor in Nieheim before the rise of the Nazi Party. Marta and Bernhard had
two children: Margarethe (Greta) Rosenthal (née Ransohoff), born in 1908, and Paul Nathan Ransohoff (1909-1939). Bernhard
Ransohoff died in 1933 and Marta and Bernhard's son, Paul Nathan, died six years later. Margarethe (Greta) married and emigrated
to the United States in January of 1940. Marta Ransohoff stayed behind in Nieheim and was subsequently deported to Warsaw
on March 30, 1942.
Sources: Gedenkbuch für die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Detmold and the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum's Survivors and Victims Database.
Language of Material:
German
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Container: 1
The Marta Ransohoff correspondence with Greta Rosenthal contains approximately 195 letters sent from Marta Ransohoff to her
daughter Greta Rosenthal between 1940 and 1941. Also included is an immigration document titled "Wichtige Anmerkungen über
die zur Einwanderung am praktischsten Beweismittel" and photocopies of two family trees: "Nieheimer Linie" and "Peckelsheimer
Linie."
Marta Ransohoff (née Steinberg), born on February 13, 1880, spent part of her youth in Detmold, Germany before marrying textile
merchant Bernhard Ransohoff, who was a city councilor in Nieheim before the rise of the Nazi Party. Marta and Bernhard had
two children: Margarethe (Greta) Rosenthal (née Ransohoff), born in 1908, and Paul Nathan Ransohoff (1909-1939). Bernhard
Ransohoff died in 1933 and Marta and Bernhard's son, Paul Nathan, died six years later. Margarethe (Greta) married and emigrated
to the United States in January of 1940. Marta Ransohoff stayed behind in Nieheim and was subsequently deported to Warsaw
on March 30, 1942.
Sources: Gedenkbuch für die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Detmold and the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum's Survivors and Victims Database.
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[Box/folder no. or item name], Marta Ransohoff correspondence with Greta Rosenthal, Collection no. 6223, Special Collections,
USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Evan Rosenthal, March 1, 2021.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Archival resources
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Archival resources
Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Archival resources
Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Jews, German -- Archival resources
Correspondence
Genealogical tables
Personal correspondence
Ransohoff, Marta -- Correspondence
Rosenthal, Greta -- Correspondence