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LOT 20:
A collection of documents of a wealthy Jewish family from Germany. The first decades of the 20th century
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A collection of documents of a wealthy Jewish family from Germany. The first decades of the 20th century
A collection of dozens of letters, documents and photos, of a wealthy Jewish family from Germany, the Prausnitz-Mautner family, from the end of the 19th century, the first decades of the 20th century, and in the 1930s in Germany until they immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1937 and stayed even after the establishment of the state - When the family member Moshe Prausnitz later became a well-known Israeli archaeologist. Most of the documents are in German, few are written in Hebrew.
Among other things, there are documents of Hans and Elsa [née Mautner] and their son Moshe. Hans, born in 1894 in Berlin, was a security engineer and served as a consultant to many German companies even during the Nazi era! His wife Elsa, nee Mautner, born in 1897, comes from a wealthy family that owns a factory in Nordhausen, Germany. Their son Moshe (Max) Prausnitz (1922–1998) was an archaeologist who specialized in the field of prehistory. Prausnitz was born in Berlin and immigrated to Eretz Israel - Haifa with his parents in 1937, at the age of 15. Prausnitz worked in the antiquities department. As part of his work, he managed and dug many archaeological sites.
Among other things appear: family letters written in Hamburg in the years 1911-1912, a letter from Rabbi Jacob Shechter regarding the family's roots, letters announcing to the family's daughter Olga Mautner that she received the Cross of Honor for assistance during the First World War, photographs of the family members, documents related to the family business, and other documents which were not thoroughly checked by us.
Dozens of documents in a folder from the 1930s, overall good condition.
