THE LENA KUECHLER-SILBERMAN COLLECTION

THE LENA KUECHLER-SILBERMAN COLLECTION 

THE LENA KUECHLER-SILBERMAN COLLECTION 

• 13 stories of children written by Lena with her evaluation of their condition. • 4 testimonies and a memoir of children who were in Lena's children's home. • Postcards and letters Kuechler wrote to Edith Zierer, a former child in Kuechler's children's house. • Letters written by Kuechler to Frances - Zipora Schaff (Fanka Beder) a former child in Kuechler's children's house. • 2 files with items belonging to children who were in Lena's children's home. • 2 files with different items: Biographical essay, recommendation, notes, personal documents, newspaper articles, excerpts from manuscripts of Kuechler's books, letters written by the children to Lena, personal correspondence between her and her husband, Mordechai Silberman, and correspondences with notable personalities • A list of Kuechler's children, by age categories • A eulogy written by one of Lena's former students grieving one of her adopted children who fell in battle in one of Israel's wars. • 250 photographs of the children as they traveled from Poland, through France and finally – Israel.