Two photograph albums of the Bernstein families, Heidemann family, and friends, 1930s-1950s / compiled by Annelie Bernstein

PXE 1040

fonds

1930s-1950s

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera

917039

2 albums (715 photographs, 7 postcards and ephemera) - chiefly black and white

Sally Bernstein (1868-ca 1944) and Rosa Bernstein, nee Petzal (1864-1942), and their three children Meta (1895-1966), Fritz (1900-ca 1944) and Erich (1905-2003) were a German Jewish family living in Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s.

With the rise of National Socialism and growing Anti Semitism, the family made plans to leave Germany. In September 1938, Meta, her husband Adolf (Dolf) Heidemann and their two children, Egon (1921-1971) and Gisela (b. 1925), having secured permits and visas, left Germany and travelled to Australia. They arrived on 10 November, stateless refugees.

Dolf, who had been a successful businessman in Germany, learnt farming in Australia, helped by Meta. They settled in Seven Hills and eventually established the Heidemann Hatikvah Hatchery.

In 1939 Erich and his fiancee Annelie Ehrlich, secured permits and left for the USA.

Compiled by Annelie Bernstein, nee Ehrlich, wife of Erich Bernstein; passed to Erich’s second wife, Ilsa, after Erich’s death. Passed by Ilsa to Kevin Moss, in about 2005.

VOLUME 01
Includes photographs of Sali and Rosa Bernstein and family in Germany in the early 1930s; of Dolf and Meta Heidemann (nee Bernstein) and their children, Egon and Gisela (Gila), and Egon's first child Roslyn (now Ros Derrett) and Gisela's first child, Milton Cohen, in NSW in the 1940s-1950s.

VOLUME 02
Includes photographs of the voyage of Erich and Annelie to the USA by ocean liner, their marriage and their lives in the USA though 1948.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955.

Letters relating to this collection are held at:
Heidemann family - Letters received, 1938-1943, 1948-1952 (MLMSS 6679)

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