Abendstern, Fleischmann and Meyerhoff families collection

Correspondence, photographs, documents and artworks relating to the family of Otto and Elly (Meyerhoff) Abendstern and their son Peter Abendstern (later Aldin) as well as Elly's second husband Adolf Richard Fleischmann. Chiefly related to Otto's internment in camps in south France, Elly and Peter's time in hiding in France during the war, and Fleischmann's internment at Camps Les Milles and Saint Nicolas in southern France. Includes birth and marriage certificates, immigration and travel documents, correspondence between members of the Abendstern family, artwork (sketchbooks, ink drawings, watercolors) made by Adolf Fleischmann in the camps, photo albums and loose photographs (pre-war, wartime, and postwar), a Catholic missal given to Peter Abendstern while he was in hiding in 1943, and Peter Aldin's memoir.